Chandigarh topped the list of states with highest COVID-19 recovery rate in India, data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare showed today. With coronavirus cases crossing the 6-lakh mark to reach 604,641 cases, a total of 3,59,859 patients have recovered from the highly-infectious disease.
The coronavirus recovery rate in the national capital reached 66.03 per cent on June 29 as against the national rate of 58.67 per cent, according to official figures
The recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in the country is fast approaching 60 per cent, with the Union Health Ministry attributing it to collective and focussed efforts of the Centre and states for containment and management of the pandemic. As on date, there are 1,19,696 more recovered patients than COVID-19 active cases.
As India continued to be the fourth worst hit among 213 countries infected by COVID-19 with 2,10,120 active cases and 16,475 deaths, Union Health Ministry on Monday said the recovery of infected patients shows "encouraging results".
In the last 24 hours, 606 new COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Uttar Pradesh, informed state's Principal Health Secretary, Amit Mohan Prasad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that India stands at a much better place than other foreign nations in COVID fight.
COVID-19 recovery rate in Delhi has surged past 60 per cent as per the latest figures issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). Delhi has seen a total of 73,780 COVID-19 cases thus far, out of these 44,765 people have recovered after contracting the virus. This takes the recovery rate in the national capital to 60.6 per cent.
Despite the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, the silver lining is that the recovery rate in the country has crossed 58 per cent. As per the latest figures issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), as many as 13,940 people have recovered in the last 24 hours taking the overall recoveries to 285,637.
India's economic recovery is more likely to be a 'U' or 'W' shaped rather than 'V' as the impact of COVID-19 will be profound on a nation that was already struggling for growth prior to the pandemic, analysts said.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday acknowledged that COVID-19 survivors in India offered a "symbol a hope" amid an increasing recovery rate. According to an update published by the Ministry of Health Friday morning, at least 10386 people were cured from COVID-19 in 24 hours. Of the 380,532 who tested positive for the virus in the country, 204,711 patients have recovered so far. Nearly 54 percent of the total coronavirus cases were cured since the outbreak.
Dr Sudhir Bhandari, principal of the SMS medical college, claimed that the state had achieved the highest rate of recovery in the country through administrative action, advance action and the best of healthcare facilities.
While interacting with the chief ministers of 15 states and Union Territories (UTs) via video conferencing in the national capital on June 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about COVID-19 recovery rate.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held discussions with chief ministers and Lt governors of 21 states and union territories on Tuesday on ways to check the spread of novel coronavirus as thousands of fresh cases are being reported daily.
Principal Health Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, Amit Mohan Prasad on June 14 briefed the detail report of COVID-19 situation in the state.
Amid all the gloom that has surrounded the whole coronavirus situation in the country, a piece of good news came this morning as India's coronavirus recovery rate notched above 50 per cent mark. As per latest figures issued by the health ministry, 162,379 people have recovered after contracting the virus. This is 50.59 per cent of the total cases reported (320,922).
A four-month-old baby in Andhra Pradesh has recovered from Covid-19, after being on a ventilator for 18 days, officials said.
Not just Kaneria, Afridi's news drew a quick response from PCB's Twitter handle, and some of his former teammates.
Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi confirmed on Friday that he tested positive for coronavirus.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday informed that India's recovery rate stood at 49.21 per cent and the number of patients recovered has exceeded the number of active cases.
As India still looks at a potential peak of coronavirus sometime in the near future, the number of recoveries in the country has surpassed the number of active coronavirus cases.
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