Covid-19 Recovery rate improves to 38.73 percent in India

Union Health Ministry has said that the recovery rate of patients from COVID-19 infection has improved further and it has now reached 38.73 per cent. Health Ministry in a statement yesterday said that with the recovery of 2,350 patient in the last 24 hours, a total of 39,174 patients have been cured of COVID-19. The Ministry said, the recovery rate is improving continuously. It said, India currently has one lakh one thousand 139 cases out of which  58,802 are  active cases now while 3,163



patients have died.

In terms of case mortality per lakh population, the Ministry said, India has so far about 0.2 deaths per lakh population as compared to  4.1 deaths per lakh population for the world. The Ministry added that a record number of over one lakh eight thousand samples for COVID-19  were tested yesterday in the country. So far a total of over 24 lakh 25 thousand  samples have been tested.