Rohit Shishodia

With many people recovering from Covid in different states in India, the country's recovery rate from the deadly disease is gradually improving. As per Union Health Ministry data, Covid recovery rate now stands at 60.73% in the country.

This was conveyed to the Union Cabinet Secretary who took a review of the Covid preparedness and management of the disease.

The ministry has credited early and better recovery to early detection and timely clinical management of Covid-19. As per the ministry data, during the last 24 hours, a sharp rise of recoveries was observed with 20,033 Covid-19 patients having been cured, taking the cumulative figure to 3,79,891.

Presently, there are 2, 27,439 active cases and all are under medical supervision.

Coordinated efforts at all levels of government for prevention, containment and management of Covid-19 are showing good results with consistently increasing gap between recoveries and active cases.

As per the “Test, Trace, Treat” strategy with various measures taken recently to remove all impediments for Covid-19 testing and facilitation of widespread testing by states and union territories, there has been a steady rise in the samples tested every day with close to 93 lakh samples being tested till date. During the last 24 hours 2,41,576 samples have been tested. The cumulative number of samples tested, as on July 3,2020, is 92,97,749.

The ministry has pointed out  that this has also been possible due to the ever expanding network of testing labs in the country. With 775 labs in the government sector and 299 private labs, there are as many as 1074 labs conducting corona tests in India today.