India's Covid fatality rate drops to 2.1%, lowest since first lockdown: Centre

Briefing the nation on the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) scenario, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, on Tuesday, said that India has achieved its lowest COVID fatality rate since the first lockdown at 2.10%. Highlighting recovered tally of over 12 lakh now exceeds the active tally at 5,86,298 cases by double, he said India has a positivity rate at 8.9%. Over 2 crore tests have been done and three vaccines are in phase-2 clinical trials, said ICMR.

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Health Ministry: Case fatality at 2.10%

• Currently, 5,86,298 active #COVID19 cases are in India & over 12 lakh people have recovered. 50% deaths due to COVID19 have taken place among the age group of 60 yrs or above & 37% deaths took place in the age group between 45 to 60 yrs
• More than 2 crore COVID19 tests have been conducted, including more than 6.6 lakh tests in the last 24 hours.
• Recovered cases at 12.30 lakh are two times the number of active cases of COVID-19 in India. The case fatality rate is lowest since the first lockdown at 2.10%
• Cumulative positivity of India is 8.89%. States with positivity less than 10% are Punjab, Rajasthan, MP, UP, Haryana, Assam, West Bengal & Karnataka. Last week's positivity of India was 11% which means a few states are showing rise in #COVID19 cases
• 28 states & union territories performing more than 140 tests per day per million population. Goa, Delhi, Tripura, & Tamil Nadu have increased their testing capacity. India is conducting 479 tests per day per million population for detection of COVID-19
• hare of 'Make in India' ventilators, in 60,000 ventilators which we'll get, is 96% by volume & over 90% by value. Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) & Andhra Med-Tech Zone (AMTZ) played a major role. BEL giving 30,000 & AMTZ giving 13,500 ventilators

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