{"id":321958,"date":"2020-04-08T04:41:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321958"},"modified":"2020-04-08T04:41:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:41:14","slug":"coronavirus-cases-in-india-rise-to-5194-death-toll-touches-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-cases-in-india-rise-to-5194-death-toll-touches-149\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus cases in India rise to 5194, death toll touches 149"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The total number of coronavirus cases in India has risen to 5194 while 149 people have lost their lives. There are 4643 active cases and 401 people have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maharashtra has reported highest number of cases \u2013 1018, followed by Tamil Nadu \u2013 690 and Delhi \u2013 576 cases.<\/span><\/p>\n

Various pre-emptive, proactive and graded measures have been taken by Indian Government along with the States\/UTs for the prevention, containment and management of COVID-19 in the country. These are being regularly reviewed and monitored at the highest level, according to official release.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued guidelines for cluster containment and outbreak containment. Technology-led initiatives for undertaking surveillance, monitoring quarantine facilities, tracking the health of suspected patients and their contacts placed under home quarantine, providing up-to-date information to citizens, making predictive analytics using Heat Maps, with real-time tracking of ambulances and disinfection services, virtual training to doctors & healthcare professionals and tele-counselling are being conducted across various Districts, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n

As per the release, three types of facilities will be set up for various categories of COVID-19 cases as a mechanism for triaging and decisions making for identification of the appropriate coronavirus dedicated facility for providing care to infected patients:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. COVID Care Center (CCC):<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    • Mild or very mild cases or COVID suspect cases.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Makeshift facilities. These may be set up in hostels, hotels, schools, stadiums, lodges etc., both public and private.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • If need be, existing quarantine facilities could also be converted into COVID Care Centres<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Necessarily be mapped to one or more Dedicated COVID Health Centres and at least one Dedicated COVID Hospital for referral purpose.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      1. \u00a0Dedicated COVID Health Centre (DCHC):<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        • Shall offer care for all cases that have been clinically assigned as moderate<\/span><\/li>\n
        • These should either be a full hospital or a separate block in a hospital with preferably separate entry\/exit\/zoning.<\/span><\/li>\n
        • These hospitals would have beds with assured Oxygen support.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          1. Dedicated COVID Hospital (DCH):<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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            • Shall offer comprehensive care primarily for those who have been clinically assigned as severe.<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Should either be a full hospital or a separate block in a hospital with preferably separate entry\\exit.<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Fully equipped ICUs, Ventilators and beds with assured Oxygen support.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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              The total number of coronavirus cases in India has risen to 5194 while 149 people have lost their lives. There are 4643 active cases and 401 people have been cured\/discharged, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Maharashtra has reported highest number of cases \u2013 1018, followed by Tamil Nadu \u2013 690 and Delhi \u2013 576 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321959,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321958\/revisions\/321959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}