Covid-19 recovery rate in India at 96.70%

PTI Updated - January 20, 2021 at 10:26 AM.

Active caseload the country remains below 3 lakh

People wearing protective masks stand in front of a poster featuring a photograph of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. India launched one of the worlds largest coronavirus vaccination drives on Saturday, setting in motion a complex deployment plan aimed at stemming the wide spread of infections across a nation of more than 1.3 billion people. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg

With a total of 13,823 infections reported in a day, Covid-19 caseload in India rose to 1,05,95,660, while recoveries surged to 1,02,45,741, said the Health Ministry on Wednesday.

The death toll due to the disease increased to 1,52,718 in the country as 162 new fatalities were recorded, as per the Ministry’s data. The total number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,02,45,741, pushing the national Covid-19 recovery rate to 96.70 per cent. The Covid-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.44 per cent, it said.

The active caseload remained below 3 lakh. There are 1,97,201 active Covid-19 infections in the country, which comprises 1.86 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated. India’s Covid-19 tally had crossed one crore-mark on December 19.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 18,85,66,947 samples have been tested till January 19, with 7,64,120 samples being tested on Tuesday.

Published on January 20, 2021 04:56