New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said that India has boosted its Covid-19 testing facility from one lab in January to 1,370 labs as of today, and people can access a Covid-19 testing laboratory within three hours from anywhere.
“The lockdown period was utilised to quickly augment our healthcare infrastructure to support the growing number of COVID-19 cases. We were able to increase our isolation beds more than 34 times and ICU beds over 20 times. From one lab in January, India has 1,370 labs today. Indians anywhere can access a lab within three hours travel time. Thirty-three of the 36 states and UTs exceed WHO’s recommendation of testing 140 people per million per day,” Vardhan said.
Meanwhile, even as India nears the 20-lakh mark for coronavirus cases with an average of over 50,000 infections every day, the Union Health Ministry has said that the recovery rate in the country has touched a record high of 67.62 per cent, while the case fatality rate (CFR) has now reached 2.07 per cent.
“The total recoveries of Covid-19 patients have jumped to 13,28,336 with 46,121 Covid-19 patients being discharged in the last 24 hours. With such consistent increase in recoveries, the gap between recovered patients and active Covid-19 cases has reached 7,32,835. The recovery rate has continued its upward journey to reach another record high of 67.62 per cent amongst Covid-19 patients,” the ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
The government further said that the case load of active cases in the country is 5,95,501, which is 30.31% of the overall positive cases. As a percentage of total cases, active cases have witnessed a significant drop – from 34.17% on July 24 to 30.31% as on Thursday.
The CFR is low compared to the global figures, and it has also been falling progressively. As per the World Health Organisation, the CFR is a measure of the severity of a disease and the proportion of reported cases of a specified disease or condition which are fatal within a specified time.
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