India’s COVID-19 recoveries in strong upward trend, crossing 47.5 lakh

New Delhi: The day that India has recorded the highest number of tests in a single day with nearly 15 lakhs of tests performed in the last 24 hours, the trend of high recoveries continues unabated.

More than 47.5 lakh (47.56,164) patients have recovered so far, while 81,177 patients recovered in the last 24 hours.

Recovered cases have exceeded active cases (9,70,116) by almost 38 lakhs (37,86,048) to date.

Driven by this number of very high recoveries, the national Recovery Rate follows an upward curve. It stands at 81.74 percent on Friday.

The Ministry of Health stated that about 73 percent of the new recovered cases have been reported in ten States / UT, viz. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Delhi, Kerala, West Bengal and Assam. Maharashtra continues to lead with more than 17,000 new recoveries. Andhra Pradesh contributed more than 8,000 to single-day recoveries.

According to the Ministry of Health, 86,052 new confirmed cases have been reported in the last 24 hours in the country. It is found that at least 75% of the new cases are concentrated in ten states / UT. Maharashtra contributed more than 19,000 to the new cases. Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have contributed more than 7,000.

Some 1,141 deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours. The government has reported that at least 83% of these are from 10 states / UT. About 40 percent of the new deaths reported on Thursday are from Maharashtra with 459 deaths, followed by Punjab and Uttar Pradesh with 76 and 67 deaths, respectively.