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Total COVID-19 recoveries in India surpass 26 lakh

| @indiablooms | Aug 29, 2020, at 10:56 pm

New Delhi: The COVID-19 recoveries have crossed 26 lakh today, the Indian government said on Saturday.

"Recovery of 2,648,998patients has been made possible because of the holistic and strategic policy of TESTING aggressively, TRACKING comprehensively & TREATING efficiently in supervised home isolation and facility isolation, and in hospitals," read the statement issued by the Indian government.

"65,050 recoveries have been registered in the last 24 hours," read the statement.

The Centre has been regularly interacting with States that are showing higher fatality rates.

There is a sharp focus on skilled doctors to man the ICUs.

AIIMS New Delhi through its tele-consultation sessions every Tuesday and Friday is building the clinical treatment capabilities and skills of the doctors in the States/UTs.

"With better ambulance services ensuring reduced response time, focus on Standard of Care and use of non-invasive oxygen, steroids and anti- coagulants, the Recovery Rate has now reached76.47%," read the statement.

As a result, the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) has also been low when compared to the global average.

It is on a continuous decline and currently stands at 1.81%.

The Recovery Rate of India is following a continuous upward incline whereas the Case Fatality Rate is constantly declining.

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