PM Modi Says Covid-19 Fatality In India Is 83 Per Million Population Compared To US, Brazil, Spain | A Look At Overall Figure

In worldwide tally of Covid-19 cases, India stands second with 7.6 million total cases, with more than 6.73 million recovered and around 1.15 lakh deaths.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Image: PTI)

New Delhi: While addressing the nation for the seventh time ever since nationwide lockdown was announced due to Covid-19 outbreak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday warned the countrymen that lockdown may have ended, but the virus is still out there and urged people not to be complacent and drop their guard in the fight against Covid-19. Beginning with his speech, PM Modi emphasized that India is doing better than many developed countries in the fight against coronavirus. He said the fatality rate in India is 83 out of every 10 lakh people, whereas it is more than 600 in countries like the US, Brazil, Spain and Britain. “The fatality rate in India is 83 out of every 10 Lakh population in India, whereas it is more than 600 in countries like the US, Brazil, Spain, Britain”, said PM Modi while addressing the nation on Tuesday ahead of the festive season coming. He even warned the citizens not to take the virus lightly by pulling off his slogan “Jab tak dawai nahi, tab tak dhilayi nahi”. He urged the citizens to take precautions to curb the spread of the virus. The first case of Covid-19 originated in the Hubei district of Wuhan Province of China. While India reported its first case on 30 January, originated from China. Since then the cases have only seen surge, even when the government imposed complete lockdown. Currently, more than 40.4 million cases of Coronavirus disease have been reported worldwide. Out of which more than 27.7 million people have recovered while the death toll stands at 1.12 million. The average recovery rate across the globe stands at 68.56 per cent, while the fatality ratio is of 2.79 per cent. EXPLAINED | Aviation Industry Flies Past Covid Turbulence, But Airlines Continue To Collapse  Covid-19 Explained In Numbers In worldwide tally of Covid-19 cases, India stands second with 7.6 million total cases, with more than 6.73 million recovered and around 1.15 lakh deaths. When compared with other countries like America stands first in the tally with 8.26 million cases, 5.5 million recoveries and around 2.25 lakh deaths. For one million population in the US, 25,239 cases were reported followed by 673 deaths along with a recovery rate of 64.3 per cent and fatality rate of 2.7 per cent. While for India, the country reported just 80 fatalities. Likewise Brazil's fatality rate stands at 748 per million and an average recovery rate of the country is 89.1 per cent. Meanwhile, Russia record stands at 10,000 cases 7,538 recoveries and around 172 deaths cases per million. With a recovery rate of 75.38 per cent and fatality ratio of 1.72 per cent. Even in Spain, that once topped the coronavirus tally earlier this year, out of 1 million people, the country reports 19,666 cases, 3035 recoveries and 686 deaths. Recovery rate of Spain stands at 15.4 per cent and fatality at 3.4 per cent. Even though India ranks second in terms of transmission of the deadly virus, the country reports as low as 80 fatalities per million comparing with the other countries like America, Brazil and Russia. With such minimal fatality rate, experts believe that India can very soon win the fight against Covid-19 or at least be the least affected nation in terms of overall death due to the contagion.