Globally, India is the second country most affected by the Covid pandemic with more than 53 lakh of cases. (Proceedings)
New Delhi:
India has surpassed the United States of America to record the highest COVID-19 recoveries in one day worldwide, the Health Ministry tweeted. According to the latest government data, a record 95,885 people have recovered from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total recovery count to more than 42 lakh. India’s Covid count passed the 53 lakh mark with 93,337 new infections today.
Globally, India is the second country most affected by the pandemic, accounting for almost 17 percent of all cases in the world.
The Health Ministry attributed the country’s high recovery rate (79.28%), the highest in the world, to focused, calibrated, responsive, and effective early identification measures led by the central government through high and aggressive testing. , rapid surveillance and monitoring. coupled with high-quality standardized clinical care has resulted in this global achievement. “
India advances #U.S and it becomes number 1 in terms of # COVID-19 RECOVERIES.
TOTAL RECOVERIES cross 42 lakh.https: //t.co/sJf1AS4zBg@PMOIndia@drharshvardhan@AshwiniKChoubey@PIB_India@DDNewslive@airnewsalerts@COVIDNewsByMIB@CovidIndiaSeva@ICMRDELHI
– Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) September 19, 2020
Today’s record number of Covid recoveries comes in the context of India reporting the highest number of new coronavirus cases in the world, an average of 90,000 cases per day, since the beginning of September.
In September so far, the country has registered 16.86.769 new cases of coronavirus and its positivity rate has risen to 10.58% from 7.5% in mid-July.
Although India’s daily cases are among the highest in the world, the number of cases, compared to the population, is “among the lowest,” the central government had previously said. Deaths in India have been relatively low and it has a mortality rate of 1.61 percent, the latest 8 a.m. bulletin inclusions show. M. From the Ministry of Health.
Globally, more than 3.06 million crore people have contracted the coronavirus since its outbreak in China’s Wuhan last year, according to the AFP news agency.
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