Rohit Shishodia
In a good sign, India's Covid case fatality rate (CFR) has declined to 2.05%. The continuing reduction in India's CFR has brought it well below the global average which is 5%, as per Worldometer website.

According to the Indian Health Ministry, India continues on the path of Covid-19 management boosted by two significant achievements, continuously rising recovery rate among the Covid-19 patients and Case Fatality Rate that has remained much below the global average.

While the former is at a record high of 68%, the latter has touched a new low of 2.05%, thus ensuring low mortality among COVID-19 patients. These two in tandem have enabled a higher and rising difference (more than 7.7 lakhs) between the number of recovered patients and active cases in India.

The total recoveries have jumped to 13, 78,105 with recovery of 49,769 patients in the last 24 hours.

The ministry has credited ramped up hospital infrastructure and emphasis on efficient treatment of hospitalized patients through the Standard of Care incorporated in the Clinical Treatment Protocol issued by the Centre, for improvement in the recovery rate. The average daily recovered cases (7 day moving average) have increased from around 26000 cases to 44000 cases in the last 2 weeks.

The ministry has further pointed out that sustained efforts by the center and state and union territories through focused and coordinated containment, widespread testing combined with supervised isolation and effective treatment have together ensured the decline in the percentage of active cases and rise of the percentage of recovered cases.