NEW DELHI: Over two million people in the country have recovered from COVID-19 so far due to sustained, pre-emptive and timely interventions. The recovery rate continued to register it’s upward trend and stood at 73.64 per cent.
India registered over 60 thousand recoveries in the preceding 24 hours, which was the highest number of recoveries from COVID-19 in a single day. So far, a total of 20 lakh 37 thousand 870 people have recovered in the country. The case fatality rate continued to show a steady decline and stood at 1.91 per cent.
India is continuously stepping up it’s COVID testing capacity. In the last 24 hours, the country moved closer to testing record one million samples in a day. With testing more than 9 lakh samples in a day, the nation achieved another milestone today. The positivity rate continues to decline despite increased testing and stands at around 7.5 per cent of the total samples tested.
The Union Health Ministry informed that the remarkable feat has been achieved by rigorously following the “Test, Track and Treat” strategy. It said, early identification through Testing, Surveillance and contact tracing along with focus on timely and appropriate clinical treatment of COVID-19 patients has ensured that only a small proportion of active cases require ventilator support.
The week-wise average daily tests witnessed a sharp increase from around 2.3 lakh in the first week of July 2020 to over 8 lakh in the current week.
With 9 lakh 18 thousand 470 tests yesterday, the cumulative COVID sample tests done so far in the country has further risen to reach 3 crore 26 lakhs 61 thousand 252 tests.
Government said that the strong determinant of this milestone has been a sustained expansion of testing labs across the country. From merely one lab in January this year, the country today has 1 thousand 494 labs. Out of these 977 are government labs while the remaining 517 are private labs.
