Health / India's coronavirus fatality rate goes down to 2.35%: Health Ministry

NEW DELHI: Even as India's total novel coronavirus cases has crossed 13 lakh, the fatality rate has registered a sharp decline to 2.35 percent, one of the lowest in the world, says the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data.

Sharing the data on Saturday, the Ministry said it could be possible because of "effective and standardised clinical management protocols based on holistic standard of care approach" adopted in the country.

The case fatality rate continues on the downward trend, which means that the collective efforts of the Centre as well as state or Union Territory (UT) authorities have helped keep a check on the mortality due to coronavirus, the Ministry said.

As per the figures, 32,223 COVID-19 patients recovered in the last 24 hours even as 48,916 fresh cases and 787 deaths were reported.

The cumulative tally of cured patients reached 8,49,431 on Saturday, indicating a record recovery rate fo 63.54 per cent. With this figure, the gap between recovered patients and active cases further increased to 3,93,360.

Meanwhile, the Health Ministry report said a record 4,20,898 corona tests were conducted in a single day in the last 24 hours in the country. This comes on the heels of 3,50,000 tests done every day consistently over the last one week, the Ministry said.

"With these 4,20,898 tests, the Tests Per Million figure has gone up to 11,485 and cumulative testing to 1,58,49,068. Both continue to maintain the upward trend."