Covid-19: Total tests near 4.5 crore, more than 28 lakh people have recovered so far
The country has till date recorded more than 36 lakh Corona cases, out of which more than 28 lakh have recovered. Recovery rate has now jumped to 77% almost.
New Delhi: India is leading a strong fight against the deadly pandemic Covid-19. It’s because of Centre’s strategic ‘Test, Track and Treat’ approach that the recovery rate is constantly on the uptrend.
The country has till date recorded more than 36 lakh Corona cases, out of which more than 28 lakh have recovered. Recovery rate has now jumped to 77% almost.
The Health Ministry says that increasing recoveries have ensured that the actual caseload of the country has reduced and currently comprises only 21.29 per cent of the total positive cases.
The Health Ministry said that average daily recovered cases week wise have grown 4 times from 15,000 in 1st week of July to 61,000 in last week of August.
In a tweet, the Ministry said, the steep rise in COVID19 recoveries indicates that India’s collaborative, graded and evolving response strategy has borne results.
During the last 24 hours, more than 10.16 tests were conducted. The total number of samples tested so far has reached over 4.33 crore.
Nearly 10.17 lakh COVID samples were tested in the country in the last 24 hours. India has witnessed a significant rise in it’s COVID testing capacity in the last 5 months. From just 160 labs testing Covid samples on 23rd of March this year, the country today has one thousand 596 labs. Out of these one thousand six are government labs while the remaining 590 are private.
The national average of tests conducted per million of the population on a single day scaled a new peak of being at nearly 545. Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Odisha have conducted over 900 tests per million of their population. Around seven other states as well have registered higher testing figures per million of their population than the national average.