Amid record surge in the Coronavirus cases on Saturday, the Union Health Ministry found solace in the recoveries being reported.
With its focussed strategies and measures, India has been continuously reporting higher number of recoveries. India has scaled yet another peak today, tweeted the Ministry. The highest ever single day recoveries of 81,533 have been registered in the last 24 hours.
“The gap between the percentage of Recovered Cases and percentage of Active Cases progressively growing wide. More than 3/4 of total cases (more than 36Lakhs ) recovered & discharged,” it said in the tweet.
The active cases in the country are known to be only a “small portion”, which is less than one-fourth of total cases, it said.
A senior official said that at least 60 per cent of the total recovered cases were being reported from five States, viz. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh.
Maharashtra has alone contributed more than 14,000 and Karnataka has contributed more than 12,000 to the new single day recoveries.
With this, the total number of recoveries has crossed 36 lakh (3,624,196)taking the recovery rate to 77.77 per cent, said the official.
In the past 24 hours,1,201 deaths have been registered. Of the total deaths, 69 per cent deaths are concentrated in five States/UT of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi, he added.