Covid-19 recovery rate inches close to 77 per cent

The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients has further improved and now it has reached 76.94 per cent. In the last 24 hours, 65,081 COVID patients have recovered and were discharged from the hospitals. 

The Health Ministry said, the total number of recoveries has reached 28,39,882. It said, the constant increase in recoveries have ensured that the actual caseload of the country has reduced and currently comprises only 21.29 per cent of the total positive cases. The number of recovered patients has overtaken the active cases by 3.61 times. The Ministry said, the number of recovered patients has grown four times from the first week of July to the last week of August 2020.

Effective implementation of 'Test,Track and Treat' approach has led to higher recoveries and lower fatality. Currently, India’s Case Fatality Rate is



at 1.77 per cent.

In the last 24 hours, 69,921 new cases have been reported taking the total number of positive cases to 36,91,166.

In the last 24 hours, five States have posted the highest addition to the new cases in the country. These are Maharashtra , Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. Together they account for 56 per cent of the confirmed cases added in the last 24 hours.

These five states have also reported the maximum number of patients that were cured and discharged in the last 24 hours, cumulatively accounting for 58.04 per cent.

Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 7,85,996. In the last 24 hours, 819 deaths have been reported taking the toll to 65,288.