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Business News/ News / India/  Covid-19 recovery rate rises to 77.32%; case fatality rate drops to 1.72%
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Covid-19 recovery rate rises to 77.32%; case fatality rate drops to 1.72%

With a record 73,642 patients having recuperated in a day, India's COVID-19 recoveries have surged to nearly 32 lakh, pushing the recovery rate to 77.32% while the case fatality rate, one of the lowest globally, has further dropped to 1.72% as on date

A woman reacts as a health officer collects a swab sample to test for COVID-19 coronavirus in New DelhiPremium
A woman reacts as a health officer collects a swab sample to test for COVID-19 coronavirus in New Delhi

With a record 73,642 patients having recuperated in a day, India's COVID-19 recoveries have surged to nearly 32 lakh, pushing the recovery rate to 77.32% while the case fatality rate, one of the lowest globally, has further dropped to 1.72% as on date, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday.

There are 8,62,320 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country accounting for only 20.96% of the total caseload, it highlighted. 

"The spike in the daily recovered COVID-19 patients continues in the country. For the second successive day, India has clocked a record recovery of more than 70,000 patients in a single day," the ministry said.

A total of 73,642 patients have recovered and been discharged from either home or facility isolation or hospitals in a day, according to health ministry data updated at 8 am.

"With this surge in numbers of patients getting recovered on a daily basis, India's recovery rate has been further pushed upwards to 77.32%," the ministry said.

Sustained efforts by the Centre, state and union territory governments have substantially resulted in higher number of people getting identified at an early stage for the infection through very high levels of testing, it underlined. 

This has enabled their timely treatment, guided by the Standard Treatment Protocol for both home or facility isolation and hospitalisation. 

The Centre, in collaboration with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi has led the process of continuous upgradation of clinical management skills of the ICU doctors in the dedicated COVID hospitals across the country. 

"These measures have resulted in saving more lives. India's COVID-19 case fatality rate, one of the lowest globally, continues to further compress. It is pegged at 1.72% as on date," the ministry said. 

The recoveries exceeded active cases of the infection by 23,18,545.  

India's COVID-19 tally of cases mounted to 41,13,811 with a record 90,632 people being infected in a day, while the death toll climbed to 70,626 with the novel coronavirus virus claiming 1,065 lives in a span of 24 hours in the country, data updated at 8 am showed.

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Published: 06 Sep 2020, 03:34 PM IST
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