PM CARES Fund Trust has allocated Rs.2000 crore for the supply of 50 thousand ‘Made-in-India’ ventilators to government run COVID hospitals in all States and Union Territories. In addition, one Rs.1000 crore have been allocated for the welfare of migrant labourers.

Out of the 50,000 ventilators, 30,000 ventilators are being manufactured by Bharat Electronics Limited. 2,923 ventilators have been manufactured so far and out of which, 1,340 ventilators have already been delivered to the States and Union Territories. These ventilators have been supplied to Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat, Bihar, Karnataka and Rajasthan. By the end of this month, additional 14,000 ventilators will be delivered to all the States and Union Territories.

In addition, Rs.1000 crore have already been released to States and Union Territories for welfare of the migrant labourers. This assistance will be used for arranging accommodation, food, medical treatment and transportation of the migrants. Larger portion of the fund was allocated to Maharashtra followed by Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Rs.181 crore were released to Maharashtra, 103 crore rupees to Uttar Pradesh and 83 crores to Tamil Nadu. Other recipients of the grant are Gujarat, Delhi, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Karnataka.

Meanwhile, Government today said that the recovery rate of COVID-19 reached 56.37% in the country and a total of 2,48,190 people have been cured so far.

During the last 24 hours, 10,994 people have recovered from COVID-19.

Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 1,78,014.

As per the World Health Organization’s Situation Report-154, India has one of the lowest deaths per lakh population.

India’s average cases of death per lakh population is one while the global average is 6.04.

Health and Family Welfare Ministry said a total of 14,933 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 4,40,215.

In one day, a total of 312 deaths have been reported taking the nationwide toll to 14,011. The case fatality rate is 3.18% in the country.

Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said 1,07,233 tests of corona virus samples were conducted by various laboratories in the country in the last 24 hours.

So far, a total of 71,37,716 tests have been conducted.

ICMR is continuously increasing its testing facilities for COVID-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories.

As of now, 992 laboratories across India have been given approval to conduct tests for COVID-19 that includes 726 government laboratories and 266 private laboratory chains.