India's COVID-19 fatality rate declines to 2.25 pc; recovery rate rises to over 64 pc: Health ministry

India's COVID-19 fatality rate has progressively declined to 2.25 per cent from 3.33 per cent on June 18 , while recovery rate increased from around 53 per cent in mid-June to more than 64 per cent w, Union health ministry said on Tuesday.

With 35,176 patients discharged in a 24-hour span, total recoveries surged to 9,52,743 and exceed active coronavirus cases by 4,55,755, it said. For fifth day in a row, India has seen more than 30,000 recoveries per day.

country has reported 14,83,156 cases till Tuesday, while death toll is 33,425, ministry data updated at 8 am showed. " COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) has reduced from around 3.33 per cent in mid-June to 2.25 per cent today,” ministry said.

"India continues its march as a country with one of lowest fatality rates in world," it said while underlining that achievement was a result of effective implementation of containment strategy combined with house-to-house surveys, aggressive testing and standardised clinical manment protocols based on holistic standard of care approach.

ministry said such an approach ensured that hospitals were left unburdened with supervised home isolation for asymptomatic patients.

Under guidance of central government, state and Union territory (UT) governments have focused on reducing fatalities by effectively managing severe cases and prioritising care of high-risk population using field healthcare workers, leing to decrease in COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) across country, ministry said.

ramped up three-tier hospital infrastructure along with prompt and seamless patient manment has helped in consistent increase in recoveries, it said.

recovery rate among coronavirus infected patients has seen a sharp increase from around 53 per cent in mid-June to 64.24 per cent as on Tuesday, according to ministry data. actual active case lo is presently 4,96,988 and all are under medical supervision.

focused efforts on early detection and isolation along with handholding of states and UTs by expert teams of AIIMS, New Delhi for efficient clinical manment of hospitalised cases and periodic visits of central teams, have borne results with continuously improving recovery rate, ministry said.

Pursuant to “test, track, treat” strategy, India has created and maintained a new high of testing more than five lakh samples for COVID-19 in a single day over two consecutive days.

"This is outcome of combined and focused efforts of Union and state and UT governments on aggressive testing as first important step in early detection and isolation of COVID-19 positive cases," ministry said.

On July 26, India tested a total of 5,15,000 samples and on July 27, a total of 5,28,082 samples were tested taking cumulative number of samples tested so far to 1,73,34,885.

gred and evolving response resulted in a testing strategy that steily widened testing network in country, and cumulative testing as on date has crossed 1.73 crore. Tests Per Million has furr improved to 12,562.

testing capacity of India has received ar boost with induction of three high throughput testing facilities in ida, Mumbai and Kolkata that were inaugurated virtually by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.

prime minister h ted that deaths due to coronavirus in India are much lower than many big countries. He h pointed out that India's recovery rate is also higher than or countries and is improving on a daily basis.

testing lab network in country is continuously strengned with 1,310 labs in country; 905 labs in government sector and 405 private labs, ministry said.

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