New Delhi: India has overtaken the United States of America to record the highest COVID-19
recoveries in a day across the world, the Health Ministry has tweeted. According to the latest
government data, a record 95,885 people recovered from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours taking the
tally of total recoveries past 42 lakh. India’s Covid tally breached 53 lakh mark with 93,337 new
infections today.
Globally, India is the second worst-hit country by the pandemic and accounts for almost 17 per cent of
all cases in the world.
The Ministry of Health credited the country’s high recovery rate (79.28 per cent) – the highest in the
world – to the Central government-led “focused, calibrated, responsive and effective measures of early
identification through high and aggressive testing, prompt surveillance and tracking coupled with
standardised high quality clinical care have together resulted in this global achievement”.
Today’s record number of Covid recoveries comes in the backdrop of India reporting the highest number
of new coronavirus cases in the world – an average of 90,000 cases per day – since the beginning of
September.
In September till now, the country has recorded 16,86,769 new cases of coronavirus and its positivity
rate has increased to 10.58 per cent from 7.5 per cent in mid-July.
Even though India’s daily cases are among the highest in the world, the caseload, when compared with
the population, is “among the lowest”, the central government had said earlier. Deaths in India have been
relatively low, and it has a fatality rate of 1.61 per cent, the latest inclusions from the 8 AM bulletin of the
Health Ministry show.
Globally, more than 3.06 crore million people have contracted the coronavirus since its outbreak in
China’s Wuhan last year.
