New Delhi: India reported a single-day spike of 83,341 coronavirus infections on Friday, taking its tally to 3.94 million as per the Ministry of Health data. India is Asia`s worst-hit country and stands at the third most affected country globally.
The ministry said 1,096 people died from COVID-19, taking the death toll to 68,472. The total tally includes 8,31,124 active cases, 30,37,152 cured/discharged/migrated cases.
The recovery rate of coronavirus patients in the country to 77.15 per cent, according to the Union health ministry. The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.74 per cent in the country. The positivity rate stands at 7.12 percent.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 and the 30-lakh mark on August 23.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 4,66,79,145 samples were tested for COVID-19 in the country as on September 3, including 11,69,765 on Thursday.
With more than 68,000 COVID-19 patients getting recovered in the last 24-hours in India, the total recoveries in the country nears 30-lakh mark, said the Ministry of Health.
Taking to Twitter, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan shared the data which stated that 68,584 COVID-19 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours. He further also informed that the recovered patients have increased to more than 3.6 times the active cases.
The number of recovered patients has outpaced the active cases (8,15,538) by more than 21.5 lakh. The total recoveries currently comprises only 21.16 per cent of the total positive cases.
Focus on improved and effective clinical treatment in hospitals, supervised home isolation, use of non-invasive oxygen support, improved ambulance services for ferrying patients for prompt and timely treatment, upgrading clinical management skills of doctors treating COVID-19 patients, use of steroids and anti-coagulants, etc., have together resulted in seamless efficient patient management, the ministry said.
The Ministry also informed that currently in India, less than 1/2% of the active cases are on ventilators; 2% are in ICUs; and less than 3.5% are on oxygen support.
Meanwhile, India on Thursday (September 3) recorded the highest single-day spike of 83,883 infections, taking the total tally to 38,53,406, while the death toll climbed to 67,376 with 1,043 people succumbing to the disease in a day, according to Union health ministry data.
