With a recovery rate of over 80 percent, the war against Covid-19 in Uttarakhand appears to be on the right track. The high recovery rate in Uttarakhand is significant since the national recovery rate of India for Covid-19 is about 60 per cent. Incidentally the mountainous districts show a much better recovery rate than the plain districts.
Tehri district where large numbers of cases were reported last month most of whom were returnees leads the table of recovery rate. Tehri has a recovery rate of 96 per cent while at 92 per cent recovery rate Pithoragarh district is at second place.
In Tehri 402 patients out of the total 420 reported have recovered from the disease. Rudraprayag has a recovery percent of 91 while Almora and Bageshwar have 87 per cent recovery rate each. The provisional state capital Dehradun has a recovery rate of 79 percent. Here 565 patients of the disease have so far recovered out of total 713 detected. With a recovery rate of 65 per cent (93 recovered out of 143 affected) Pauri district has the worst recovery rate in the state.