India's COVID-19 fatality rate lowest in world

June 02, 2020 16:34

The health ministry is addressing the media on the coronavirus pandemic.

During the briefing, Lav Agrawal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry said that 95,527 Covid-19 patients have recovered. The recovery rate is now 48.07%.

He also added that India's fatality rate is the lowest in the world. "The fatality rate in our country is 2.82 per cent, one of the lowest in the world." Agrawal speaking to the media also highlighted that 73 per cent of Covid-19 deaths in India were people with co-morbidities.

Talking of testing in India, Nivedita Gupta, scientist at Indian Council of Medical Research said, "We have 681 laboratories that are approved for conducting Covid-19 tests- 476 in the government sector and 205 in private sector, as of 1st June 2020. Today, we are conducting 1 lakh 20 thousand tests every day."

The novel coronavirus death toll rose to 5,598 in India on Tuesday with 204 more fatalities, while 8,171 new cases took the number of infections to 1,98,706

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