Coronavirus recoveries in India crosses 1 million

The number of recovered patients in India from the highly infectious covid-19 disease reached one million milestone on Wednesday.

Continuing the consistent trend of more than 30,000 recoveries per day for the sixth consecutive day, more than 35,286 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours according to the union health ministry. Thereby, the total recoveries have jumped to 9,88,029 taking the recovery rate to another high of 64.51% amongst covid-19 patients.

“With such consistent increase in recoveries, the gap between recovered patients and active covid-19 cases currently stands at 4,78,582. Active cases (5,09,447) are under medical supervision, the union health ministry said in a statement.

While India as on Wednesday recorded a total of 15,58,447 covid-19 cases and the contagion claimed 34,485 lives, the recovery rate also remained high in direct proportion to the states with the highest disease burden. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi having the highest number of covid-19 cases also witnessed the highest recoveries with 2,32, 277 in Mumbai, 1, 56,966 in Tamil Nadu and 1,18,633 people in Delhi recovering from Covid-19.

In yet another positive factor for India while dealing with the pandemic, the Case Fatality Rate stood at 2.23% on Wednesday and it is lowest since 1st April 2020.

"A million recuperations from Covid-19 are huge and we can like the numbers at this stage. In any case, they mirror an image of the pestilence half a month prior, where the immense number of tainted indicative individuals were relied upon to recuperate in the end over some stretch of time," said Dr Preeti Kumar, Vice President of the Public Health Systems Support, general wellbeing establishment of India (PHFI), an open private association (PPP) activity towards general wellbeing. 

"We have to focus on the quantity of new cases and it is a reason for stress if these are high. A continued fall in new cases, with significant levels of testing and low inspiration will give a



sign of a declining pestilence," she said. 

The State/UT governments under the direction of Center are consistently increase testing to guarantee brief distinguishing proof and disconnection of covid-19 positive cases. With 4,08,855 examples tried over the most recent 24 hours, the quantity of Test Per Million (TPM) has expanded to 12,858 and total testing has crossed 1.77 crore. 

The testing lab organize in the nation is additionally being fortified with 1316 labs in the nation; 906 labs in the administration area and 410 private labs. 

General wellbeing specialists have said that the high recuperation rates is cheering however the specialists additionally need to take a gander at different measures to restrict the spread of the illness, for example, focussing on asymptomatic patients, home separation arrangements and carrying more patients to emergency clinics for presentation of the infection.

“Majority of the covid-19 cases in India are mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic.Thereby silently spreading the disease to other community members. People are taking self medication by themselves unless the symptoms are deteriorating. More patients are turning up at hospitals whose source of infection cannot be traced which is a problem," said Dr Suneela Garg, director of community medicine at Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi University who cited Stigma and discrimination as one of the major issue which refrain individuals from coming to the hospitals.

Garg argued that people have to be forthcoming in terms of disclosure to the health authorities so that necessary action can be undertaken.

“Apart from the above measures ,it is necessary to focus upon mental helath, stigma discrimination, gender issues and effective use of resources, she said adding that the Resident Welfare Associations and communities need to be well informed so that home based care becomes the ultimate solution for mild to moderate cases there by reducing the burden on health care systems.