COVID-19 fatality rate dips to 2.28%: Ministry data

NEW DELHI: Amid spike in COVID-19 cases with the latest highest single-day rise of 49,931 cases in the last 24 hours, the coronavirus fatality rate is progressively falling and has dipped to 2.28 per cent. India has secured place among countries showing the lowest fatality rates in the world, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).

The Ministry said focused efforts of the governments on early detection and isolation through aggressive testing and efficient clinical management of hospitalised cases helped lower the case fatality rate and improve the recovery rate.

With effective containment strategy, aggressive testing and standardised clinical management protocols based on a holistic standard of care, the fatality rate had dipped, it added.

"The case fatality rate is falling. It's 2.28 per cent at present," the Ministry data showed. Continuing the streak of over 30,000 recoveries a day for the 4th successive day, the Ministry said 31,991 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours. It has taken the number of recoveries to 9,17,567, showing 64 per cent recovery rate. (IANS)

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