COVID-19: India’s recovery rate improves further

India, the second worst-hit country by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the world, recorded 74,442 new infections and 903 deaths in the last 24 hours, which has taken its tally to 66,23,815 while the death toll increased to 1,02,695.

There has been a reduction in the number of active cases, indicating the daily recoveries exceeded the number of infections. India’s total number of active cases has come down to 9,34,427 on Monday.

The country has been posting high level of daily recoveries for the past few weeks and 76,737 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours. Now 5,586,703 people have been cured so far taking the national recovery rate to 84.34%.

The new recoveries have exceeded the fresh cases of the coronavirus disease in the recent days. India has the highest number of recoveries in the world at the moment. The number of deaths in India has also witnessed a marginal dip in the past couple of days.

Maharashtra, which has the highest number of active cases in the country, has also contributed the highest number to the newly-recovered cases followed by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

The government also said that 10 states and Union Territories account for 77. 11% of the active cases in the country. Out of the total new cases, 78% were concentrated in 10 states and Union territories with Maharashtra contributing more than 14,000 to the new cases. Karnataka and Kerala reported 9,886 and 7834 new cases, respectively, according to government data.

India has exceeded the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations on daily testing per million by nearly six times, according to the health ministry. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that nearly 8 crore samples have been tested for Covid-19 in the country up to October 4. ICMR said a total of 7,99,82,394 samples have been tested so far. Of these, 9,89,860 samples were tested yesterday.