Recovery rate improves to 63.13%, record 28,472 patients back home in last 24 hours

INDIA’S TOTAL COVID TALLY CROSSES 12 LAKH; CASE FATALITY RATE DROPS TO 2.41%

NEW DELHI: Despite India registering over 35,000 fresh COVID-19 cases for the fourth day in a row, the country’s recovery rate has improved to 63.13 per cent on Wednesday with a record 28,472 patients recuperating from the disease and being released from various hospitals in the last 24 hours while the case fatality rate further dropped to 2.41 per cent.

India registered 37,724 new infections on Wednesday pushing the country’s COVID-19 tally to 11,92,915 while the death toll rose to 28,732 with 648 people succumbing to the disease in a day.

Notably, as per the data updated by the states, the total tally of Coronavirus cases crossed 12 lakh mark on Wednesday.

There are 19 states/UTs that have registered recovery rates more than the national average and among those, Delhi is at the top with 84.83 per cent followed by Ladakh (84.31 per cent), Telangana (78.37 per cent), Haryana (76.29 per cent), Andaman & Nicobar Islands (75 per cent), Rajasthan (72.50 per cent), Gujarat (72.30 per cent), Chhattisgarh (71.81 per cent), Assam (71.05 per cent), Odisha (70.96 per cent) and Tamil Nadu (70.12 per cent).