India has lowest COVID-19 cases per million population: Health ministry

A medical worker inoculates a woman with a COVID-19 vaccine at the Civil hospital in Amritsar on Wednesday. Pic/AFP

The daily COVID-19 recovered cases in India have been surpassing daily new cases from the last 20 days, while the total active cases stand at 1,76,498 comprising just 1.65 per cent of the total infections, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. The cumulative recoveries have surged to 1,03,59,305 with 13,320 patients being discharged in a span of 24 hours. A total of 12,689 daily new cases were added to the national tally during the same period. "India has one of the lowest daily COVID-19 new cases Per Million Population (69) in the last seven days," the ministry highlighted.

These sustained encouraging results have been made possible with the Centre-led proactive and calibrated strategy of test, track, treat technology, the ministry underlined. Early identification through high and aggressive testing, prompt surveillance and tracking, supervised home isolation combined with high quality medical care through Standard of Care protocol issued by the Centre have aided the sustained high number of recoveries, it stated. The Union government has supported the state and UT governments with sufficient quantity of ventilators, PPE kits, drugs, etc, said the ministry.

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