New Delhi (NVI): With over 95,000 people recovered from the coronavirus in a single day, India has overtaken the United States to register the highest number of COVID-19 recoveries in the world, Union Health Ministry said.
The country reported the highest number of total recoveries with more than 42 lakh (42,08,431) COVID-19 patients recovered with a record 95,885 people recovered from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
“In a landmark global achievement, India has overtaken the US and become the top country in terms of global COVID-19 recoveries,” the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
The country now accounts for close to 19 per cent of the total global recoveries. This has strongly pushed the national recovery rate to nearly 80 per cent, it added.
The ministry also said that timely steps taken by the government to detect the virus have resulted in this global achievement.
“Centre-led focussed, calibrated, responsive and effective measures of early identification through high and aggressive testing, prompt surveillance and tracking coupled with standardised high-quality clinical care have together resulted in this global achievement,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, the country has also scaled another peak of registering the highest ever single day recoveries, the ministry said, adding that, the total of 95,880 recoveries have been recorded in last 24 hours.
“Around 90 per cent of the new recovered cases are being reported from 16 States/UTs,” it added.
However, India has maintained a sustained path of reporting very high number of recoveries. These are the result of focussed strategies leading to coordinated effective actions in the states and Union Territories, the ministry noted.
India’s coronavirus tally crossed the 53-lakh mark and stands at 53,08,015 including 10,13,964 active cases, and 85,619 deaths in the country.
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