India’s COVID-19 recovery rate crosses 70%
   Date :13-Aug-2020

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NEW DELHI :
 
Record 56,110 people recuperate in one day COVID-19 cases tally 23,29,638; toll 46,091 
 
INDIA’S COVID-19 recovery rate soared past 70 per cent on Wednesday with 16,39,599 people having recuperated from the disease so far in the country, while active cases comprise 27.64 pc of the total caseload, the Union Health Ministry said. The case fatality rate has further declined to 1.98 per cent, it said. The highest single-day recoveries at 56,110 are the result of the successful implementation of effective containment strategy, aggressive and comprehensive testing coupled with standardised clinical management of the critical patients based on holistic standard of care approach, the Ministry said.
 
The coordinated efforts of the Central, State and UT Governments have resulted in continuously increasing average daily recoveries, it said. India’s COVID-19 tally went past 23 lakh on Wednesday with a single-day increase of 60,963 infections, while 834 new fatalities, reported in a span of 24 hours, pushed the death toll to 46,091, data updated at 8 am showed. The total coronavirus cases in the country have mounted to 23,29,638. “In the first week of July, the daily average recovered cases were at 15,000 which jumped to more than 50,000 in the first week of August,” the health ministry said.
 
“With more patients recovering and being discharged from hospitals and home isolation (in case of mild and moderate cases), the total recoveries have crossed the 16 lakh-mark and recovery rate has reached another high of 70.38 per cent,” it added. There are 6,43,948 active cases of coronavirus which is “actual caseload” of COVID-19 in the country and currently comprise 27.64 per cent of the total positive cases.
 
They are under active medical supervision. With a consistent and sustained increase in recoveries, the gap between recovered patients and active COVID-19 cases has reached nearly 10 lakh, the ministry stated. India’s ‘test, track, treat’ strategy has achieved another peak with 7,33,449 tests done in 24 hours on Tuesday. This has taken the cumulative tests to more than 2.6 crore.