India may have the second highest number of cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), but the country has one of the lowest deaths per million in the world, the Union health ministry said.
He posted a tweet on Wednesday morning that listed the number of Covid-19 deaths per million in India and other countries around the world. At age 79, India has the lowest deaths per million among the countries with the highest number of cases. Brazil leads the list with 706 deaths per million. The world average is 138, and India is below that, data from the Health Ministry showed.
In another graph published in the same tweet, the ministry showed that India has one of the lowest cases per million in the world. The world average, according to the graph of the Ministry of Health, is 4,794; India has 5,199 Covid-19 cases per million. Brazil has the highest number of cases per million (23,911) followed by the United States (23,072).
The Health Ministry also said that India’s recovery rate is the highest in the world.
The ministry’s tweet comes on a day when India saw a marginal increase (just over 8,000) in the number of new Covid-19 cases. India’s number of cases rose to 72,39,389 with 63,509 infections reported in one day, while the number of people who have recovered from the disease exceeded 63 lakh, the Ministry of Health panel showed Wednesday morning.
The recovery rate stands at 87.05%.
The death toll from coronavirus rose to 1,10,586 and the virus claimed 730 lives in a span of 24 hours, data updated at 8 a.m. showed.
For six days in a row, active COVID-19 cases stayed below 9 lakh. There are 8.26,876 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country, representing 11.42 percent of the total number of cases, while recoveries have risen to 63.01,927. , the data indicated.
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