With over 1,08,000 Covid-19 cases, India is the 11th worst-affected country in the world. But since more than 39.6 per cent of the confirmed infection cases have recovered, the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday said it shows
that clinical management protocols adopted by the country are effective.
Compared to the global scale, where there are 62.3 cases per one lakh population, India still has only 7.9 cases/lakh population. Similarly, for mortality rate per lakh population, while the global average is 4.2, India’’s figure is pegged at 0.2, said the Ministry.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan addressing the Non-Aligned Movement Health Ministers’ meeting on Wednesday, said India’s response of “micro-identification, mass isolation and quick treatment” prevented “large scale deaths and spread of Covid-19.”
Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary at the Health Ministry at a Press conference here, said Covid-19 recovery rate has been on continuous upwards climb and is more than 39.62 per cent.
“When the first phase of lockdown started, the recovery rate was around 7.1 per cent. During the second phase of lockdown, it was 11.42 per cent and rose to 26.59 per cent. Today, the recovery rate is 39.62 per cent.”
The efforts for early identification of Covid-19 cases had helped in having a better recovery rate, he said.
“The focus on clinical management and recovery has resulted in the improvement in the recovery rate. More than 39.6 per cent of the confirmed cases have recovered,
bringing the total to 42,298 recoveries as of today. This is a reminder that the disease is curable and the clinical management protocols adopted by India are effective.”
Only 6.39 per cent Covid-19 cases need hospitalisation, which includes oxygen, ventilator or ICU support, he said.
Giving a breakup, he said that 2.9 per cent of all the active cases under treatment require oxygen support, about 3 per cent of the active cases require ICU support and 0.45 per cent of the active cases require ventilator support.
India has been concurrently focusing on upgrading the Covid dedicated health infrastructure.
Agarwal stated that India has been relatively able to decelerate the pace of Covid-19 spread and the impact can be seen in the data of cases.