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With focussed strategy and proactive as well as calibrated measures of the Centre along with the States and UTs, India has sustained a very high Covid-19 recovery rate along with rapidly declining active cases and low mortality rate, it said.
“While the global figure for recovery rate is 70.27%, India is recording 95.31%. The USA, Brazil, Russia, and Italy are reporting lesser recovery rates,” the ministry said.
Recoveries outnumbering new cases on a daily basis have ensured a high recovery rate among patients. The total recovered cases are nearing 95 lakh.
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The rising recoveries have also led to a continuous contraction of India’s active caseload which presently stands at 3,22,366 and consists of just 3.24% of India’s total infections.
Following the national pursuit, 18 states and UTs have a recovery rate more than the national average.
India has registered 33,291 new recoveries in a span of 24 hours.
The ministry said that 75.63% of these new recovered cases are contributed by ten states and UTs.
With 5,728 persons recovering from COVID-19, Kerala has recorded maximum number of recoveries. Maharashtra registered another 3,887 daily recoveries while West Bengal registered 2,767 new recoveries.
A total of 24,010 new daily cases were registered in a span of 24 hours.
Ten states and UTs have contributed 78.27% of the new infections.
Kerala reported 6,185 cases in a span of 24 hours. West Bengal recorded 2,293 new cases while Chhattisgarh registered 1,661 new cases yesterday.
Of the 355 new fatalities, 79.15% have been reported in a span of 24 hours by ten states and UTs.
Maharashtra reported 26.76% of new fatalities. West Bengal saw a fatality count of 46 while Delhi reported 32 new deaths.
India has registered a steady decline in the number of daily deaths. The case fatality rate is sustained at 1.45% and is consistently decreasing. India’s fatality rate is one of the lowest in the world, the ministry said.