New Delhi (NVI): With the consistent decline in the active cases and fatalities, India’s Covid-19 cases and deaths per million population is among the lowest in the world, according to Union Health Ministry.
While addressing a media briefing, Health Secretary, Rajesh Bhushan said, “India’s deaths per million population is amongst the lowest in the world; stands at 94 deaths per million population.”
“India’s cases per million population is also amongst the lowest in the world; stands at 6,430, while the global average is 6,956,” Bhushan added.
Meanwhile, the country has been recording around 30,000 daily new cases for the last two consecutive days. 29,163 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours. The country has also seen less than 50,000 daily new cases being registered continuously for the past ten days.
While this signifies the wide adoption of COVID appropriate behaviour among the population, it also assumes significance in view of the high number of daily cases being continuously reported in many countries in Europe and the Americas.
Furthermore, the trend of new daily recoveries exceeding the daily new cases continues with 40,791 cases recovering in the last 24 hours against just 29,163 newly detected cases.
The active caseload which has now stands at 4,53,401 comprises just 5.11 per cent of all cumulative cases.
The total recovered cases stand at 82,90,370. With this, the recovery rate has improved to 93.42 per cent today.
In addition to this, the Government continues to maintain a high level of countrywide testing. Total tests conducted so far stands at 12,65,42,907 today. This has led to bringing down the cumulative positivity to 7.01 per cent.
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