India's COVID-19 fatality rate reduces to 2.25 percent 

"India continues its march as a country with one of the lowest fatality rates in the world," read a government statement.

This achievement is a result of effective implementation of containment strategy combined with house-to-house surveys, aggressive testing and standardized clinical management protocols based on holistic Standard of Care approach which ensured that hospitals were left unburdened with supervised home isolation for the asymptomatic patients.

Under the guidance of Central government, State/UT governments have focused on reducing the fatalities by effectively managing the severe cases and prioritising care of the high-risk population using field health care workers leading to decrease in the CFR across the country.

"The CFR has reduced from around 3.33% in mid-June to 2.25% today," read the statement.

The Recovery Rate has seen a sharp increase from around 53% in mid-June to more than 64% as on today.

With 35,176 patients discharged in the last 24 hours, the total recoveries stand at 9,52,743.

With improving daily recovery number, the gap between the recovered cases & the active cases is also persistently increasing. Presently, it is 4,55,755. This means the actual active case load is presently 4,96,988 and all are under medical supervision.