COVID-19 recovery rate improves to 74.69 per cent

PTI

The recovery rate from COVID-19 has improved further and now it has reached 74.69 per cent today. During the last 24 hours, 63 thousand 631 Covid patients have  recovered. With this, a total of over 22 lakh 22 thousand people have recovered in the country so far.

The case fatality rate continues to show steady decline and now stands at 1.87 per cent.

The Health Ministry said early identification through testing, prompt and effective treatment through supervised home isolation and quality medical care and innovative graded policy measures have resulted in almost 100 per cent increase in recovered cases in the last 21 days. Presently, the total number of active cases in the country is over six lakh 97. During the last 24 hours, 945 deaths were reported taking the toll to 55 thousand 794.

With a  spike of 69,874 infections in a day, India’s COVID-19 tally increased to 29,75,701. There are 6,97,330 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country.