New Delhi, Jul 9 (UNI) For the first time, the number of recovered cases has overshot the number of active Coronavirus-19 cases by 2,06,588 and is 1.75 times -- almost twice -- the number of active cases.
During the past 24 hours, a total of 19,547 patients have been cured, taking the total number of recoveries among Covid-19 patients to 4,76,377 as of today largely due to focussed attention on effective surveillance through house-to-house contact tracing, early detection, and isolation as well as timely and effective clinical management of Covid-19 cases, an official release here said.
At present, there are 2,69,789 active cases and all are under active medical supervision.
India’s Covid-19 recovery rate is also steadily increasing and stood at 62.09 per cent on Thursday.
The release stated that "it would perhaps be not fair to compare India to other countries in terms of absolute numbers, India has 195.5 cases per million population which is among the lowest in the world." It cited proactive delineation of containment and buffer zones, aggressive testing, early and timely detection and adherence to clinical protocols and better ICU/hospital management manifest in India having one of the lowest fatalities in the world.
Deaths per million population in India numbered 15.31 which translated to a fatality rate of 2.75 per cent against the global deaths per million population that stood at 68.7.
India is also seeing steady increase in growth of daily testing numbers. During the last 24 hours 2,67,061 samples have been tested. As on date, 1,07,40,832 samples have been tested for identification of COVID-19 in the population.
The release said concerted efforts by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Indian Council for Medical Research had resulted in an impressive augmentation of the testing labs network in the country, which boasts of 1,132 labs comprising 805 labs in the government sector and 327 private labs. There were 603 Real-Time RT PCR based testing labs: (373 Govt and 230 Private), 435 TrueNat based testing labs (400 Govt and 35 Private)
abd 94 CBNAAT based testing labs (33 Govt and 61 Private)
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