Recovery rate improves to 64.44 %
Staff Reporter / New Delhi
India’s Health Ministry today said that the COVID-19 recoveries have crossed one-million mark in the country. Briefing media in New Delhi today, Officer on Special Duty in Health Ministry said, it was possible due to the selfless work, dedication and commitment to duty shown by our Doctors, Nurses and frontline Medicare workers. He said, recovery rate among COVID-19 patients increased from 7.85 per cent in April to 64.44 per cent today.
He said, the recoveries are 1.9 times the number of active cases of COVID-19. The Health Ministry Official said, effective clinical management led to decline in COVID-19 case fatality rate from 3.33 per cent on 18th June to 2.21 per cent yesterday. He said, due to enhanced testing infrastructure, on an average 4 lakh 68 thousand 263 COVID-19 tests conducted daily from 26th to 30th July. The Health Ministry official said, from 88 lakh total COVID19 tests till 1st July, around 1 crore tests have been done in this month, leading to a cumulative number of more than 1.81 crore tests till today.
He informed that less than 10 per cent COVID-19 positivity rate in 21 states and Union Territories. Rajasthan, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir have less than 5 per cent positivity rate. He added that there is a continuous decrease in proportion of active COVID19 cases and a progressive increase in proportion of recovered cases. The Health Ministry Official said, phase one and two human clinical trials of two indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine candidates have started.