As per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, the country is recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic substantially. India’s total recovered cases crossed 32.5 lakhs today with 69,564 patients being discharged in the last 24 hours. Recovery rate as per the ministry has touched 77.31%.
Various calibrated and focused actions undertaken within the umbrella strategy of test, track and treat have enabled early identification of cases through aggressive and wide-scale testing. Better ambulance services and seamless point-to-point management of patients to facilitate their timely hospitalization before their health deteriorates has led to a high number of Covid-19 patients recovering and being discharged from the hospitals. This has also resulted in the declining Case Fatality Rate, which stands at a new low of 1.70% today. Supervised isolation in homes and facility settings, following effective Standard of Care protocol, has hugely aided recovery of mild and moderate cases.
The ministry has stated that five states are contributing 60% of total cases with Maharashtra at the top with 21.6%, followed by Andhra Pradesh (11.8%), Tamil Nadu (11.0%), Karnataka (9.5%) and Uttar Pradesh at 6.3%. Maharashtra also contributed 26.76% of the active cases in the country, followed by Andhra Pradesh (11.30%), Karnataka (11.25%), Uttar Pradesh (6.98%) and Tamil Nadu (5.83%).
In the last 24 hours, Andhra Pradesh recorded the highest recoveries with 11,915 newly recovered cases. Karnataka and Maharashtra saw 9575 and 7826 recoveries while Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh witnesses 5820 and 4779 new recoveries, respectively. These 5 States together contributed 57% of the recoveries in the last 24 hours.
