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At 2.46 percent, India has one of the lowest fatality rates in the world: Govt

| @indiablooms | Jul 20, 2020, at 10:40 pm

New Delhi: The Case Fatality Rate due to COVID-19 in the country continues to register a steady downfall. It has dropped to 2.46 percent on Monday, the Indian government released data revealed.

India has one of the lowest Case Fatality Rates in the world. Effective clinical management of the moderate and severe cases through a well executed Standard of Care protocol has ensured a high rate of recovery among the COVID patients.

The Centre is hand holding and supporting the State/UT governments in collectively combating COVID-19.

One such initiative is e-ICU program of AIIMS, New Delhi.

"Aimed at reducing mortality, AIIMS  has mentored and supported 43 big hospitals in 11 States through shared experiences and technical advice from domain experts in clinical management of ICU patients," read a government statement.

This has substantially boosted their capacity in treatment of critical care patients.

More than 7 lakh persons have been cured of COVID-19 and discharged till now.

This has further expanded the difference between those who are active COVID patients and the recovered persons (7,00,086) by 3,09,627. 22,664 COVID patients have recovered from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.

The recovery rate as of now is at 62.62%.

Medical attention is being provided to all the 3,90,459 active cases, in hospitals and home isolation.

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