Record 57,381 COVID-19 patients discharged in a day, recovery rate rises to 71.61 pc: Health ministry

number of people in India who have recuperated from COVID-19 went past 18 lakh on Saturday with a record 57,381 patients discharged in 24 hours pushing recovery rate to 71.61 per cent, according to health ministry data.

India's 'test, track and treat' strategy has achieved ar peak with 8,68,679 COVID-19 tests done in a 24 hours taking cumulative tests done till Friday to more than 2.85 crore, ministry said.

Twelve states and union territories have reported ir recovery rates above national aver. In 30 states and UTs COVID-19 recovery rate is more than 50 per cent, it highlighted.

Delhi has highest recovery rate of 89.87 per cent followed by Tamil Nu at 81.62 per cent, Gujarat 77.53 per cent, Mhya Presh 74.70 per cent, West Bengal 73.25 per cent, Rajasthan 72.84 per cent, Telangana 72.72 per cent and Odisha 71.98 per cent.

With more patients recovering and being discharged from hospitals and home isolation, total number of recoveries have surged to 18,08,936.

" gap between number of recovered patients and active COVID-19 cases has increased and crossed 11 lakh (11,40,716 today). This is a result of coordinated efforts of Centre, state and UTs which has led to a continuous increase in aver daily recoveries," ministry said.

re are 6,68,220 active COVID-19 cases, actual caselo of country, which is 26.45 per cent of total cases. y are under active medical supervision, health ministry said.

Focus on effective treatment in hospitals, supervised home isolation, use of n-invasive oxygen support, improved services of ambulances for ferrying patients for prompt and timely treatment, upgration of clinical manment skills of doctors treating COVID-19 patients have in tandem resulted in seamless efficient patient manment, it said.

"This has ensured that India's Case Fatality Rate (CFR) is maintained below global aver. It is on a continuous positive slide and currently stands at 1.94 per cent," ministry said.

Gred and evolving response has resulted in a testing strategy that steily widened testing net in country. To keep up with this strategy, testing lab network is being continuously strengned which w consists of 1,465 labs of which 968 are in government sector and 497 private.

India's COVID-19 tally reached 25,26,192 on Saturday with a spike of 65,002 cases, while death-toll climbed to 49,036 with 996 people succumbing to disease in 24 hours, health ministry data updated on Saturday 8 am showed.