{"id":325492,"date":"2020-08-16T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325492"},"modified":"2020-08-16T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:30:23","slug":"covid-19-indias-case-fatality-rate-below-2-recovery-rate-nears-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-indias-case-fatality-rate-below-2-recovery-rate-nears-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 : India\u2019s case fatality rate below 2%, recovery rate nears 72%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/with-38902-fresh-covid-19-cases-in-24-hours-indias-tally-at-1077618\/virus-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-324818\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-324818 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/virus-1-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"706\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1-585x420.jpg 585w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/a>India&#8217;s mortality rate due to Covid-19 as of Sunday stands at 1.93%, which is\u00a0one of the lowest mortality globally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">As per the statement released by the Ministry of Health, &#8220;USA crossed 50,000 deaths in 23 days, Brazil in 95 days and Mexico in 141 days, whereas India took 156 days to reach this national figure.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Meanwhile, India&#8217;s Recovery Rate has reached nearly 72%. 53,322 have recovered and been discharged in the past 24 hours. With this number, the total recovered COVID-19 patients have increased to more than 18.6 lakh (18,62,258).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The steady rise in recoveries has ensured that the percentage caseload of the country is reducing. The current active cases (6,77,444) compose the actual caseload of the country. It is 26.16% of the total positive cases today, registering a further drop in the last 24 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">India is moving towards completing 3 crore COVID tests; 2,93,09,703 samples tested so far. 7,46,608 tests were done in the last 24 hours with the help of\u00a0a growing national network of diagnostic labs which comprises 969 labs in the government sector and 500 private labs, adding up to 1469.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s mortality rate due to Covid-19 as of Sunday stands at 1.93%, which is\u00a0one of the lowest mortality globally.\u00a0 As per the statement released by the Ministry of Health, &#8220;USA crossed 50,000 deaths in 23 days, Brazil in 95 days and Mexico in 141 days, whereas India took 156 days to reach this national figure.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":324818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325493,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325492\/revisions\/325493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}