India’s Covid fatality rate down to 1.44%: Centre
Ministry says that collaborative efforts of the Centre, states have resulted in bolstering facilities
NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 fatality rate in India has been showing a sustained decline and has further dropped to 1.44% due to focused efforts of the Centre, states and Union Territories on effective clinical management of the hospitalised cases, the Union health ministry said on Sunday.
With effective containment strategy, aggressive testing and standardised clinical management protocols based on holistic standard of care protocol across government and private hospitals, the number of new deaths have dipped, it stated.
“Less than 300 new Covid-19 deaths are being recorded in the country for the last 16 days,” the ministry said.
As part of the Covid-19 management and response policy, there has been a sharp focus of the Centre on not only containing the viral disease but also to reduce deaths and to save lives by providing quality clinical care to the critical and severely diseased patients. Collaborative efforts of the Centre, states and UTS have resulted in strengthening of health facilities across the country, the ministry said.
“India has one of the lowest deaths per million population (109). Countries like Russia, Germany, Brazil, France, the USA, the UK and Italy have much higher deaths per million population,” it said.
The total number of recoveries has surged to 10,075,950 and the national recovery rate has improved to 96.42 per cent.
India’s current active caseload of 223,335 was just 2.14 per cent of its total cases. Recovery of 19,299 patients in 24 hours has led a decline of 855 cases from the Covid-19 active caseload.