India’s recovery rate from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has touched 90% with 62,077 people recovering in the past 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Sunday. This brought total recoveries to 7,078,123, it added.
“India records a new milestone: the recovery rate reaches 90.00%. 62,077 have been recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours while the new confirmed cases amount to 50,129, ”the ministry wrote on Twitter.
He added in a statement that the achievement corresponds to the downward spiral of total active cases, which remain below the seven lakh mark for the third day in a row.
The record recoveries come on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the change of festive scenery in the country. In his Mann ki Baat speech, Modi spoke about the pandemic that forces us to stay indoors at that time of year when the streets are usually busiest. However, he stressed the need to continue taking precautionary measures in the fight against the deadly virus.
According to the government, 75% of the new recovered cases are concentrated in 10 states: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, with Maharashtra leading the way with more than 10,000 single-day recoveries.
Earlier in the day, the Ministry of Health also brought to light the rapid pace of recovery in the country. According to the data he cited, it took three months to achieve three million recoveries of 0.1 million between July and September, while they surpassed seven million in a month and a half through October.
Active cases (6,68,154) represent only 8.50% of the total positive cases in the country, and 79% of the new cases come from 10 states and territories of the Union. Kerala has registered the highest number of new cases with more than 8,000 cases, followed by Maharashtra with more than 6,000 cases.
Additionally, recoveries exceed active cases by 6.4 million.
The daily cost of infection also continues to slope downward with fewer than 1,000 deaths since the last week. In the last 24 hours, 578 people died due to Covid-19. The death toll has remained below 1,100 since October 2.
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