Staff Reporter :
India has 5,424 cases of mucormycosis or “black fungus”, the country’s Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said on Monday.
The minister said this during a meeting with a group of ministers on the coronavirus pandemic, reports Hindustan Times quoting news agency ANI.
All these cases have been reported from 18 states and Union territories, the health minister also said.
Out of the total black fungus cases, 4,556 patients have a history of Covid-19 infection and 55 percent of them had diabetes, he added.
Meanwhile, BBC reported that India has more than 8,800 cases of deadly black fungus. The western states of Gujarat and Maharashtra have reported more than half of the reported cases, the report adds. At least 15 more states have reported between eight and 900 cases, according to BBC. However, the news agency has not attributed the numbers to any particular source.
India’s death toll from Covid-19 crossed 300,000 as the number of daily fatalities hovered above 4,000. The country’s Covid-19 tally, meanwhile, has increased to 26,752,447 after 222,315 positive cases were detected in the 24-hour period.
