Recoveries from Covid-19 to touch 10 lakh mark; fatality rate dips to 2.23%

New Delhi: Total recoveries from COVID-19 in the country today inched closer to 1 million mark. A total of 9,88,029 have recovered in the country so far and 35,286 recoveries were reported during the last 24 hours. With this, the recovery rate improved to 64.51 per cent in the country. The case fatality rate has further declined to 2.23 per cent.

The Health Ministry said, 48,513 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in the country in one day taking the total number of cases to 15,31,699. Presently, the total number of active Corona cases in the country is 5,09,447. In a single day, 768 deaths were reported taking the toll to 34,193. Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research said that a record 4,08,833 tests were conducted by various laboratories in the last 24 hours.

So far, 1.77 crore tests have been conducted and at present, 1,316 laboratories across India are conducting the tests that include 906 government laboratories and 410 private laboratory chains.

Delhi stands at top position with 88.83 per cent recovery rate. Ladakh, Haryana, Assam and Telangana are other top performing States and Union Territories wherein the recovery rate is above 73 per cent. Nearly, 16 States and Union Territories have better recovery rates than the national average of 64.51 per cent.

Maximum number of people have recovered in Maharashtra followed by Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh. In terms of fatality rate, there are 29 States and Union Territories which have lower fatality rates than the national average. In the total active cases, around 70 per cent caseloads are from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.