India's COVID-19 recovery rate crosses 60 pct
New Delhi/IBNS: India's fight against COVID-19 received another boost as the recovery rate from the disease now crossed 60 percent.
"The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients has crossed 60%. It stands at 60.73% today," the Indian government released a statement said.
Early detection and timely clinical management of COVID-19 cases have resulted in increasing daily recoveries. During the last 24 hours, a sharp rise of recoveries was observed with 20,033 COVID-19 patients having been cured, taking the cumulative figure to 3,79,891.
Presently, there are 2,27,439 active cases and all are under medical supervision.
As per the “Test, Trace, Treat” strategy with various measures been taken recently to remove all impediments for COVID-19 testing and facilitation of widespread testing by States/UTs, there has been a steady rise in the samples tested every day with close to 93 lakh samples being tested till date. During the last 24 hours 2,41,576 samples have been tested, read the government statement.
The cumulative number of samples tested, as on date, is 92,97,749.
This has also been possible due to the ever expanding network of testing labs in the country.
With 775 labs in the government sector and 299 private labs, there are as many as 1074 labs today.
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