Covid claims 1,059 lives in 24 hrs

The number of recoveries of Covid-19 patients in the country exceeded active cases by 3.5 times on Wednesday.

India’s Covid-19 tally, meanwhile, rose to 32.34 lakh with 67,151 more people testing positive in the last 24 hours, while the toll climbed to 59,449 with 1,059 new fatalities being reported during the period.

According to the Union health ministry, the single-day recovery figure has been more than 60,000 for many days and the recovery of 63,173 patients in the last 24 hours has resulted in the cumulative recoveries of 24,67,758 people.

“This has contributed to the rapidly widening chasm between the number of percentage recovered and percentage active cases further. As many as 17,60,489 people have recovered more than the

7,07,267 active cases,” it said. The record high recoveries have ensured that the number of active cases which is the actual caseload, comprises only

21.87 percent of the total cases The steadily declining Case Fatality Rates stands at 1.84 per cent on Wednesday.

“Early identification of the infections through timely and aggressive testing has played a pivotal role in India’s strategy to fight the pandemic as the cumulative testing reached 3,76,51,512 with more than 27,000 Tests Per Million. In the last 24 hours 8,23,992 tests were conducted,” said the Union Health Ministry.

The ministry pointed that 7-day average rolling numbers of tests per day indicate the determined,

It may be noted that there are a total of 1,540 labs today which includes

992 government labs and

548 private.