Recovery rate from Covid-19 infection improves to 51.08%: Heath Ministry

Union Health Ministry has said that the recovery rate from COVID-19 infection  has improved further and it has now reached 51.08 per cent.

The Ministry said, during the last 24 hours 7,419 COVID-19 infected pesons were cured and so far a total of 1,69,797 such persons have been cured from COVID-19.

It said, the recovery rate indicates that more than half of positive cases have recovered from the disease.

Currently, 1,53,106 active cases are



under medical supervision.

The Ministry said, ICMR‘s testing capacity for detecting the novel Coronavirus in infected persons is continuously being ramped up.

The number of government labs has been increased to 653 and private labs has been increased to 248 taking the total number to 901.

In the last 24 hours, 1,15,519 samples were tested. The total number of samples tested thus far is over 57.74 lakh.