India's Covid tally crosses 1.5 lakh, toll stands at 4,337

As per Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 1,51,767 people including 64,426 cured or discharged and 4,337 deceased have so far been infected in the country of 1.3 billion people.

Maharashtra, the western state, is the worst affected region adding more than one-third of the total Coronavirus cases in India.

The financial capital of the country has so far reported 54,758 cases including 1,792 deaths.

Though India has been adding more than 6,000 cases for last several days, the country's Health Ministry on Tuesday sounded less worried over the pandemic Covid-19 as the fatality rate in the vast country of 36 states and union territories was among the lowest in the world.

During a regular bulletin, Lav Agarwal, the joint secretary of India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, said, "Our Covid-19 case fatality rate (death rate among confirmed cases) was 3.30% on Apr 15, it has now come down to 2.87%, which is amongst the lowest in the world."

"Compared to 69.9 Covid-19 cases per lakh population for the world as a whole, 10.7 cases per lakh population have been reported in India. This is due to the lockdown and our containment efforts," he added.

Agarwal stated India's fatality rate is 2.87% at a time the world's mortality rate is 6.45%, much higher than the Asian country.

While 4.4 deaths per lakh population were reported worldwide, India has registered 0.3% deaths per lakh population, added the joint secretary. 

India has already entered into the last week of the fourth phase of nationwide lockdown which is due to end on Jun 1.

Even before the expiry of the lockdown 4.0, Himachal Pradesh on Monday extended the shutdown till Jun 30.

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