India's Covid fatality among lowest in the world: Health Ministry
New Delhi/IBNS: The Health Ministry of India on Tuesday asserted that the fatality rate due to the pandemic Coronavirus or Covid-19 in the country was among the lowest in the world, a day after the Asian nation registered the 10th highest confirmed cases worldwide.
Lav Agarwal, the joint secretary of India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on Tuesday 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, a country of 1.3 billion people, reported fresh 6,535 fresh Covid-19 cases in 24 hours taking the tally to over 1,45,000 on Tuesday.
As per the data provided by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 1,45,380 people including 60,491 cured/discharged and 4,167 deceased have been infected with the pandemic virus.
Maharashtra, the worst affected state, has reported more than one-third of India's total Covid cases.
The western state has reported 52,667 cases including 15,786 cured/discharged and 1,695 deceased.
Maharashtra is followed by the southern state of Tamil Nadu (17,082), Gujarat (14,460) and Delhi (14,053) in terms of the infected numbers.
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.
The hill state has reported 223 cases so far.
In a step towards bringing normalcy in the country, the Indian government on Monday resumed domestic passenger flight operations, which was suspended even before the beginning of the lockdown in March, but lots of airlines were also cancelled in Delhi creating more confusion for the passengers.
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