Recovery rate improves to 64.23%; Total recoveries from Covid-19 in India cross 9.5 lakh mark

New Delhi, July 28: In a major development to the Coronavirus situation in India, the Health Ministry on Tuesday revealed that total recoveries from Covid-19 crossed 9.5 lakh mark. "With this, the recovery rate improved to 64.23 per cent in the country. The case fatality rate has further declined to 2.25 per cent. A total of 9,52,743 people have recovered in the country so far and 35,175 recoveries have been reported in the last 24 hours", it said.

 

The Ministry headed by Dr Harsh Vardhan added that 47,703 new cases of Covid-19 had been registered in the country in one day taking the total number of cases to 14,83,156. Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 4,96,988. In a single day, 654 deaths have also been reported taking the toll to 33,425.

 

 

Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research noted that a record 5,28,82 tests were conducted by various laboratories in the last 24 hours. This is the second consecutive day, more than 5,00,000 tests were conducted across the country. So far, one crore 73,34,885 tests have been conducted and at present, 1,310 laboratories across India are conducting the tests that include 905 government laboratories and 405 private laboratory chains.

 

According to the Central Government reports, effective containment strategies and clinical management protocols have improved recovery rate and reduced fatality rate. In terms of recovery rate, Delhi stands at top position with 88.68 per cent recovery rate. Ladakh, Haryana, Assam and Telangana are other top performing States and Union Territories wherein the recovery rate is above 75 per cent. Sixteen States and Union Territories have better recovery rates than the national average of 64.23 per cent.

 

Maximum numbers of people have recovered in Maharashtra followed by Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh. In terms of fatality rate, there are 29 States and Union Territories which have lower fatality rates than the national average of fatality rate. In the total active cases, 68.91 per cent caseloads are from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.