Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
India record the addition of new cases Covid-19 in a day as many as 66,999 infections corona virus. This number is a record high of daily cases since India first confirmed cases of Covid-19.
To date, India has reported 2,396,637 coronavirus infections. India is still the country with the highest corona cases in the world after the United States and Brazil.
More than 653 thousand of them are active cases. The Indian government claims more than 1.6 million patients have recovered from infections.
The Indian Ministry of Health also recorded 942 patients who died from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours. That way until now the deaths due to corona have become 47,033.
Unlike other countries, not all patients in India undergo retesting to be declared cured of Covid-19. Under certain conditions, patients who have been infected for more than 10 days are declared cured. They are no longer undergoing tests to make sure there is no virus in their bodies.
It’s just that, in a number of cases that are considered severe, patients can only be discharged after undergoing one corona virus test which results are negative.
Indian medical research council as reported CNN, said he had tested more than 26.8 million samples of the coronavirus so far.
Transmission of virus in slum areas of Mumbai
Last month, researchers from the Indian Center for Disease Control and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research found 57 percent of nearly 7,000 samples of blood taken from slum areas tested positive for the coronavirus.
However, about 23.5 percent of the sample is known to have the highest level of immunity to the virus in the world. A number of scientists believe the process of recovering from Covid-19 makes a person immune, even without a vaccine.
“The slums of Mumbai may have attained herd immunity. If people in Mumbai want a safe place to avoid contagion, they should probably go there,” said Jayaprakash Muliyil, chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Epidemiology of India.
On the other hand, Dan Om Shrivastav, an infectious disease expert in Mumbai warned that it is too early to draw conclusions and make a firm statement regarding the level of virus immunity by Mumbai residents.
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