India’s recovery rate of COVID-19 cases has crossed the 80 percent mark with over 90,000 recoveries recorded for the third consecutive day, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. In a statement, the ministry said 93,356 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours. “India has crossed the significant landmark of more than 80 per cent national recovery rate. On a continuous stretch of high recoveries, India has also reported more than 90,000 recoveries for the third day in succession,” the ministry said in the statement.
Twelve states and UTs have registered recovery rate of more than the national average and 79 per cent of the new recovered cases are from 10 states and UTs.
As many as 60% of the new recoveries were reported from five states — Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu — which also accounted for 52% of the new cases, the health ministry highlighted on Sunday. Maharashtra continued to top the chart with more than 23,000 new recoveries, while both Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh accounted for over 10,000 single-day recoveries, it said. With this development, India has also occupied the top position in the world in terms of total COVID-19 recoveries as the country constitutes 19% of global recoveries, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. As per the data available on Worldometers, India is followed by the USA with 18.70% of global COVID-19 recoveries and Brazil’s with a share of 16.90% of total recoveries in the world.
India has come a long way fighting the pandemic relentlessly. Hopefully the cases will start going down as well soon. Jaan hai toh jahaan hai
Surjitt sahani
