Coronavirus India Update: Recovered cases go past the number of Active cases

Coronavirus India Update: In a significant achievement, the number of recovered COVID-19 cases in India has overshot the number of active cases by 2,06,588. The number of recovered cases is 1.75 times (almost twice) the number of active cases. As per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare latest communication on Thursday evening, during the last 24 hours, a total of 19,547 patients have been cured, taking the cumulative figure of recoveries among COVID-19 patients to 4,76,377 as of today. This is a result of focussed attention on effective surveillance through house-to-house contact tracing, early detection, and isolation as well as timely and effective clinical management of COVID-19 cases.

The Union Ministry said in its latest COVID-19 update, "India’s COVID-19 recovery rate is also steadily increasing. The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients has increased to 62.09 per cent today," adding, "It would perhaps be not fair to compare India to other countries in terms of absolute numbers, India has 195.5 cases per million population which is amongst the lowest in the world. The proactive delineation of containment and buffer zones, aggressive testing, early and timely detection and adherence to clinical protocols & better ICU/hospital management also manifests in India having one of the lowest fatalities in the world."

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India is also seeing a steady increase in growth of daily testing numbers. During the last 24 hours 2,67,061 samples have been tested. As on date, 1,07,40,832 samples have been tested for identification of COVID-19 in the population.

Concerted efforts by MoHFW and ICMR have resulted in an impressive augmentation of the testing labs network in the country, which boasts of 1132 labs comprising 805 labs in the government sector and 327 private labs.