Syed Akbaruddin shares infographic depicting preventive measures' success against COVID-19

As countries around world are relaxing lockdown protocols, Indian diplomat Syed Akbaruddin has suggested some precautionary measures for people amid increasing cases of COVID-19 infections. He also drew a comparison of possibility of spread of virus in absence of said precautionary measures vis-a-vis taking precautions. 

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What does infographic mean?

Having served as Permanent Representative to United Nations before retiring on April 30 and being one of India's finest diplomats with an illustrious tenure with a massive social media following, Akbaruddin took to Twitter to post an infographic from Lancet, which depicted that re is a 12.8 percent chance of infection if individual fails to maintain a social distance of one metre. possibility of infection reduced to 2.6 percent if more than one metre of social distancing is maintained at all times. 

Similarly, without mask re is a massive risk of infection -- 17.4 percent. However, infection's possibility reduces drastically to 3.1 percent with protection of face mask, according to graphic tweeted by Akbaruddin.

COVID-19 situation in India

Even as country is in fifth phase of lockdown, India is witnessing a steep rise in COVID-19 cases in country. As on June 11, India has reported 297,535 COVID-19 infections, of which 147,194 have been cured and discharged whereas 8498 people have succumbed to virus, bringing count of active cases to 141,842, as per Health Ministry. 

Union Health Ministry on Thursday said coronavirus recovery rate among patients in India has risen to 49.21% and ted that  number of patients recovered presently exceeds number of active patients. 

Speaking about India overtaking or countries like Italy and Spain in COVID-19 tally, Lav Aggarwal of Health Ministry said comparison of India with countries having substantially lesser population "becomes misleading and misconstrued".

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