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India Coronavirus Cases Crosses 1.5 Lakh, Health Ministry Says Recovery Rate High

"At least 60,490 people in the country have recovered from the disease. The recovery rate which was 7.1% in the first lockdown, 11.42 % in second, 26.59% was in the third lockdown, is now 41.61 %," said Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal

New Delhi: The total cases of coronavirus have surpassed the 1.5 lakh mark with the total cases reported at 1,51,767. According to the data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday, at present there are 83004 active cases while 64425 people have recovered. The death toll has also witnessed a surge and climbed upto 4337. Despite the increasing numbers of positive cases the health ministry has maintained that the recovery rate in India is high. According to an IANS report the Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal has said that the recovery rate in the country was 7.10 percent on March 25 whereas now when the country is in the fourth phase of the lockdown the rate is 41.61. "At least 60,490 people in the country have recovered from the disease. The recovery rate which was 7.1% in the first lockdown, 11.42 % in second, 26.59% was in the third lockdown, is now 41.61 %," said Agarwal. He also said that the fatality rate is also on a decline. "Our fatality rate is one of the lowest -- 2.87 % as against the global average for case fatality which is around 6.45%. It was 3.3% on April 15 and has now reduced to 2.87 %," said Agarwal in the report. He also talked about the mortality per lakh population in India and said that it indicated that India has about 0.3 deaths per lakh population. He said that this is the lowest in the world against the statistics of 4.4 deaths per lakh population for the world. "The relatively low death figures, both in terms of mortality per lakh population and case fatality rate, represent timely case identification and clinical management of the cases," he said. Maharashtra still continues to lead in the number of coronavirus cases and has a total of 54758, it is followed by Tamil Nadu(17728), Gujarat(14821), and Delhi(14465).

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