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War Against Corona

Fight to finish

Recovery rate of Corona patients

reaches over 77 per cent with an
efficient ‘test, track, treat’ strategy

adopted by the Government

f 110-year-old Siddamma from Chitradurga
district in Karnataka got discharged from
I hospital on August 1, 2020 after getting
admitted to hospital on July 27, 2020, then there
is 103-year-old Pareed from Kerala who defeated
Corona in 20 days after being hospitalised on July
20, 2020. These are some of the positive stories 31 LAKH PATIENTS RECOVER
about some high risk category people emerging
victorious in the war against Corona. India Fights Corona

With ‘test, track, treat’ strategy adopted by the As on September 4, 2020 77.23%
Government, the rate of recovery of the Corona Recovery rate
reached, 11
patients is gradually getting better and better and percent during
the death rate is declining fast. In the past five lockdown one
months, over three-fourths of corona patients Two yards Distance 88.91%
got cured and as per data released on September Total Labs Delhi's recovery rate
4, 2020 less than one-fourth cases are active. 1583 after intervention
India’s recovery rate amongst COVID-19 patients 1003 Govt. 580 Pvt of center, highest in
the country
on August 31, 2020 stands at 76.63 per cent with Total Testing
1.73%
nearly 19.5 lakh (19,48,631) recoveries than the 4.66 is India's
active cases 7,81,975 which are under active Crore death rate
medical care. The sustained high recoveries have Average Testing 10.5 lakh per/ day 39,53,618
ensured that the actual caseload of the country Total Cases in India
viz. the active cases, comprises 21.60% of the 8,46,395 68,682 ( Source: https://
covidindia.org
total positive cases. TotalActive cases Total Deaths or https://www.
worldometers.info)
Ten states account for a significant chunk of
the total cases in the country. The Prime Minister COMPARATIVE DATA OF THE WORLD
held a review with the chief ministers of these In the case of Corona, India is comparatively much
states on August 11, 2020 and the Cabinet better than other countries of the world.
Secretary Rajiv Gauba took stock of the situation Positive Active Deaths
on August 27, 2020. World 3,403 890 112.3
Europe 4,987 1,842 282
States/UT were advised to proactively take America 19,122 7,754 577
steps towards reducing case fatality to less than 1 Russia 6,955 1,124 121
per cent across all districts focusing on effective Brazil 19,012 3,163 586
containment, contact tracing and surveillance. n India 2,856 607 50
Figures per million as on September 4, 2020
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