The health Ministry also informed that the fatality rate in India is at 3.2% with 65% of deceased patients being male and 35% being female.
New Delhi| India’s recovery rate from Covid-19- the share of patients who earlier tested positive, was treated and then discharged after recovering from the infection, has improved in the last two weeks, the Union Health Ministry informed on Thursday in a daily briefing on Covid-19. The spike in recovery rate has been 13 percent compared to 14 days ago with a total recovery rate of of 25.19% currently. The doubling rate of COVID-19 cases has also improved to 11 days from 3.5 days before the lockdown.
The officials said that 8,324 patients have recovered so far from the infectious disease. In the last 24 hours, 1,718 new cases of coronavirus were detected taking the total number to 33,050. The death toll due to COVID-19 is at 1,074.
The health Ministry also informed that the fatality rate in India is at 3.2% with 65% of deceased patients being male and 35% being female.
The Health Ministry once again iterated that the nationwide lockdown imposed on the 25th March by the central government has spared us from a huge surge in Coronavirus cases that otherwise would have crippled the country’s healthcare system.
“Our analysis finds that the rate of growth in positive cases and fatalities has been consistently lower – linear but non-exponential,” the chief executive of the government think tank Niti Aayog, Amitabh Kant said.
Prime Minister Modi will decide whether the lockdown will continue after 3rd May. Meanwhile, the governemnt sources say that things could get back to normal in districts where there are no serious threats of mass infection.
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had said that big cities like Mumbai, Delhi, and Ahmedabad, which are also India’s economic growth engines- top the list of coronavirus cases and there is no signs of pandemic abating in the cities.
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