COVID-19 recovery rate improves to 47.40% in country

New Delhi, May 30: The Ministry of Helath on Saturday noted that a total 82,370 people affected with Corona virus have cured and the recovery rate reached to 47.40 per cent in the country. "During the last 24 hours, 11,264 people have recovered and 7,964 fresh cases of COVID-19 have been reported taking the total number of cases to one lakh 73,763", the official letter noted.

 

 

 

This is the highest spike in fresh cases in one day since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in India. Health Ministry said, 265 deaths have been registered in last 24 hours taking the nationwide toll to four thousand 971. However, the significant fact to note is that in just a day, Maharashtra’s recovery rate jumped from 31.2 per cent to 43.3 per cent, close to the national average of 42.8 per cent.

 

On Friday, data for the day released by the Maharashtra government showed 8,381 people, of them 7,358 from Mumbai alone, had been discharged from dedicated Covid hospitals or Covid Care Centres, or had completed their 14-day home quarantine.

 

The total count of recovery stands at 26,997 in the state. Until Thursday, Maharashtra was discharging around 1,000 cases every day, but it grew 8-fold on Friday to 8,381. Officials explained that the sudden 12 percentage point hike in recovery rate was due to district officials completing the herculean task of checking which patients in their region had recovered over the last few days and updating their database.