New Delhi: Focused and effective efforts towards containment, testing, isolation and treatment by the Centre, states and Union Territories have resulted in the recovery rate rising to 68.32 per cent and fatality rate steadily declining to 2.04 per cent, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
India has one of the lowest cases per million at 1,469 as against the global average of 2,425, it said.
On Saturday, India registered 61,537 more cases, pushing the coronavirus tally to 20,88,611
There are 6,19,088 active cases of COVID-19, comprising 29.64 per cent of the caseload. This was the 10th day in a row that the COVID-19 tally increased by more than 50,000.
According to the ministry, effective surveillance and improved testing network have ensured early detection of cases, consequentially leading to timely clinical management of severe and critical cases.
Coordinated implementation of ‘test, track, treat’ strategy by the Centre, states and Union Territories has ensured that case fatality rate has been low compared to the global scenario, it said. “It (fatality rate) has continued to fall progressively and stands at 2.04 per cent as on date. With focused efforts to reduce mortalities due to COVID-19, India has registered one of the lowest deaths per million at 30 as compared to the global average of 91 deaths per million,” the ministry said.
The UK has 684 deaths per million population while the USA, Brazil, Mexico and Russia have 475, 458, 385 and 101 deaths per million population respectively, the ministry said.
As far as cases of coronavirus infection are concerned, 13,451 cases per million population in Brazil and 14,446 in the US are respectively nine and 10 times that of India, it said.
With 48,900 patients discharged in 24 hours, India’s total recoveries from has reached 14,27,005. (PTI)
