India's COVID-19 fatality rate dips to 2.28 pct
Mumbai: With effective containment strategy, aggressive testing and standardized clinical management protocols based on holistic Standard of Care approach, the COVID -19 Case Fatality Rate has significantly dipped in India, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
The Case Fatality Rate is progressively falling and currently, it is 2.28%.
"India has one of the lowest fatality rates in the world," read a government statement.
Continuing the streak of more than 30,000 recoveries per day for the 4th successive day, 31,991 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours.
This has taken the total recoveries beyond 9 lakh and the number currently stands at 9,17,567.
The Recovery Rate is 64%.
As a result of low mortality and more people recovering, the recovered cases exceed the active cases (4,85,114) by 4,32,453 today. Medical attention continues to be provided to all active cases in hospitals and home settings.
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