India's COVID-19 case fatality rate drops to 2.38 pc; recovery rate rises to 63.34 pc

For third day in a row, number of COVID-19 recoveries in a 24-hour span saw ar record high, with 34,602 patients having recuperated pushing recovery rate to 63.45 per cent, Union health ministry said on Friday.

case fatality rate has furr declined to 2.38 per cent, it said.

According to data updated at 8 am, total recoveries have climbed to 8,17,208, while re are 4,40,135 active cases of coronavirus in country at present, ministry said as COVID-19 tally surged to 12.87 lakh.

India also saw a record single-day spike of 49,310 cases while death-toll mounted to 30,601 with 740 new fatalities, data said.

ministry said as a result of constantly growing number of recoveries, recovered patients outnumber active cases by 3,77,073. "This difference is showing a progressively growing urd trend." Furr, a cumulative total of 1,54,28,170 samples have been tested for COVID-19 up to July 23. On Thursday, 3,52,801 samples were tested. "This translates to 11179.83 tests per million (TPM) for India, which has seen a stey increase since option of 'test, track and treat' strategy," ministry said.

rise in TPM has been achieved with a stey rise in number of labs (1290 so far), and efforts by Centre and state governments and union territorty ministrations to facilitate wide-spre testing through an array of options, it ted.

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re are currently 897 labs in government sector and 393 private labs.

As for country registering increasing number of recoveries, ministry said that efforts of states and union territories are bolstered by central teams of experts sent to high case-lo areas and through strategic discussions held by Central government through video conferencing with state and district officials.

"With dedicated efforts of healthcare workers, recoveries are improving and case fatality is continuously falling, which currently stands at 2.38 per cent," ministry said.

sustained rise in number of recoveries is result of a well formulated and executed strategy of containment of COVID-19 by state and union territory governments under guidance of Union government.

It primarily focuses on early detection through aggressive testing along with house-to-house surveys, contact tracing and surveillance of SARI/ILI cases to actively search for cases in highly vulnerable categories. This is followed by effective containment plans and efficient clinical manment through ramped up three-tier health infrastructure and well executed standard of care protocol.

se have successfully aided in effective treatment in hospitals and through home isolation which in turn has ensured that hospitals remain unburdened for critical patients, ministry said. 

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