COVID-19 Doubling Rate 4.1 Days, Would’ve Been 7.4 If Not For Nizamuddin Event: Govt

Mumbai: In India, the patient of COVID-19 is doubling in 4.1 days, which would have been 7.4 days had Tablighi Jamaat event not taken place, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare here on Sunday.

Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family said, “Currently our double rate is 4.1 days. But if the additional cases reported due to the Tablighi Jamaat event had not taken place, then the doubling rate would have been 7.4 days.”

This comes a day after Aggarwal said that out of the total cases of COVID-19 in the country, about 30 per cent are linked to the Tablighi Jamaat incident, which took place in Nizamuddin.

Aggarwal has also been told that the Cabinet Secretary held a meeting on COVID-19 and all DMs have instructed pharma units to run equipment, medicines efficiently.

With 472 fresh cases of COVID-19 and 11 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the total number of coronavirus positive cases in the country has gone up to 3,374, said the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Sunday.

“A total of 3,374 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported in India till now as 472 new cases were reported since yesterday. Total of 79 deaths have been reported so far including 11 deaths reported since yesterday,” said Aggarwal.

Aggarwal said that 267 people have been recovered so far from COVID-19 in the country. “Coronavirus cases have been reported in 274 districts across the country so far,” he said.

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