COVID recoveries cross 29 lakh

New Delhi: The number patients who have recuperated from COVID-19 in India has crossed 29 lakh, the Union health ministry said on Wednesday, underlining that the last 10 lakh recoveries were recorded in only 17 days as against the 10 lakh before that which took 22 days.
The number of recovered cases exceeds that of active cases of coronavirus infection by more than 21 lakhs.
The ministry said 12 states and UTs have reported recovery rates higher than the national average of 76.98 per cent. Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, alone account for around 30 per cent of the total recoveries, it said. There are 8,01,282, active cases in the country which comprises 21.26 per cent of the total caseload, according to the health ministry data. (PTI)