New Delhi, April 30: Himachal Pradesh has emerged among the top four states in India which are performing the best in delaying the doubling of COVID 19 cases.
Whereas the national cases doubling rate has improved from three days pre-lockdown to 11 days now, in Himachal, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Assam the corresponding doubling is happening at over 40 days.
States where doubling rate is 20 to 40 days are Haryana, Ladakh, Kerala, Karnataka and Uttarakhand.
Punjab along with Delhi, UP, JK, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu is seeing COVID cases double between 11 to 20 days.
While the today COVID cases today rose to 33,050 with 1,074 deaths, analysis of data show maximum deaths 42 per cent in age 60 to 75 years, followed by 34.8 per cent in 45 to 60 years; 14 per cent in below 45 years and 9.2 per cent in plus 75 years.
In 78 per cent dead patients there was a pre-existing disease burden of diabetes, cardiac or renal conditions. Old-age and co-morbid conditions have emerged as the biggest risk factors for COVID.
India’s recovery rate improved further to 25 per cent today as against 13.06 per cent two weeks ago. Mortality rate is stable at around 3 per cent.
In all 8,324 persons have been discharged after treatment.
