Empowered Group Chairman reveals success of India's COVID-19 fight during the lockdown

dressing a press briefing on Thursday, CK Mishra- Union Environment Secretary and Chairman of Empowered Group 2 set up by Centre spoke about success of India's fight against COVID-19 during 30-day lockdown period. He observed that mantra of Union government is to save lives and treat people. Moreover, he revealed that India h been able to contain transmission of COVID-19, increase doubling days, ramp up scale of testing and prepare for future in lockdown period. 

CK Mishra remarked, "Today, one month of lockdown has been completed. What has this 30-day lockdown done? I kw that this has brought hardship to many people, but we must express our gratitude to all people of India who are facing se hardships today so that we can save lives in future. Our main mantra is how to save lives and how to treat people. We have been able to cut transmission, minimize spre, and increase doubling days as Lav Aggarwal has always been speaking to you. Second, we have been able to consistently ramp up our testing. And this, we have been utilizing our time gainfully to prepare for future if virus spres furr."

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'In se 30 days, we remained more or less stable' 

reafter, Mishra highlighted that India h increased its COVID-19 testing from 14,915 tests on March 23 to more than 5 lakh tests on April 22. At same time, he ackwledged that it was essential to continuously ramp up testing in country. Showing a graph, he pointed out that post-lockdown, India's confirmed cases h grown 16 times in comparison to testing which has increased 24 times. According to Mishra, India h done much better than US, UK and Italy as far as confirmation rate of COVID-19 cases after detection of 400th case.

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"In se 30 days, we remained more or less stable. One of critical tools we have used is testing. On March 23, we h conducted 14,915 tests in entire country. On April 22, we have done more than 5 lakh tests. If you do a rough calculation, it is about 33 times in 30 days. But, we are conscious of fact that this is t eugh and we have to continuously move ahe and ramp up testing in this country," Mishra ded. 

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growth of cases has been more or less linear than exponential with around 4-4.5% of total tested persons turning out to be positive for COVID-19. He also explained hospital structure for COVID-19 and ted that number of dedicated hospitals and isolation beds has increased 3.5 times and 3.6 times respectively since last one month. Finally, he stated that basic principle was to test, cure and ensure that mortality is very low. 

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