India’s COVID-19 management is marked by “two significant achievements” of continuously rising recovery rate among COVID-19 patients and a case fatality rate that has remained much below the global average, according to the Health Ministry. While the recovery rate among coronavirus patients has risen to a record high of 67.98%, the fatality rate has gone down to 2.05%, it said on Friday. “These two in tandem have enabled a higher and rising difference of more than 7.7 lakh between the number of recovered patients and active cases in India,” the Ministry said. 

India’s COVID-19 management is marked by “two significant achievements” of continuously rising recovery rate among COVID-19 patients and a case fatality rate that has remained much below the global average, according to the Health Ministry. While the recovery rate among coronavirus patients has risen to a record high of 67.98%, the fatality rate has gone down to 2.05%, it said on Friday. “These two in tandem have enabled a higher and rising difference of more than 7.7 lakh between the number of recovered patients and active cases in India,” the Ministry said.