Daily Recoveries outnumbering daily New Cases ensure steep upward trajectory of the Recovery Rate

New Delhi, 17 Dec 2020: With focussed strategy and proactive as well as calibrated measures of the Union Government along with the States and UTs, India has sustained a very high Recovery Rate along with rapidlydecliningActive Cases and low mortality rate.

Recoveries outnumbering new cases on a daily basis have ensured a high recovery rate among patients. The total recovered cases are nearing 95 lakh(94, 89,740). The Recovery Rate has improved to 95.31% today.The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases is also increasing consistently and presently stands at 91,67,374.

The rising recoveries have also led to a continuous contraction of India’s Active Caseload. It has ensured that India’s present active caseload of 3,22,366 consists of just 3.24%of India’s Total Positive Cases.

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India’s recovery rate is amongst the highest in the world. While the global figure for Recovery Rate is 70.27%, India is recording 95.31%. USA, Brazil, Russia, and Italy are reporting lesser recovery rates.

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Following the national pursuit, 18States/UTs have Recovery Rate more than the national average.

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India has registered 33,291new recoveries in the last 24 hours.

75.63% of these new recovered cases are contributed by ten States/UTs.

With 5,728persons recovering from COVID, Kerala has recorded maximum number of recoveries. Maharashtra registered another 3,887daily recoveries while West Bengal registered 2,767 new recoveries.

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24,010 new daily cases were registered in the last 24 hours.

Ten States/UTshave contributed 78.27%of the new cases.

Kerala reported 6,185cases in the last 24 hours. West Bengal recorded 2,293 new cases while Chhattisgarh registered 1,661new cases yesterday.

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79.15%of the 355 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours are from Ten States/UTs.

26.76% of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra which reported 95 deaths.West Bengal saw a fatality count of 46 while Delhi reported 32new deaths.

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India has registered a steady decline in the number of daily Deaths. The case fatality rate is sustained at 1.45%and is consistently decreasing. India’s Fatality rate is one of the lowest in the world.

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