India records highest-ever single day peak of 63,631 recoveries in the last 24 hours. Recoveries exceed the active cases by more than 15 lakh. Recovery Rate is at 74.69%.
The entire administration of the KGMU in Lucknow has tested positive for coronavirus. VC Bipin Puri, the Registrar, CMS Shankhawar, MS Ojha and Microbiology head Amita Jain also tested positive.
As many as 23,097,175 people around the world have been diagnosed with Covid-19. While more than 15,174,876 have recovered, 787,567 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 5,795,777 cases. It is followed by Brazil, which has 3,411,872.
While India has the lowest fatality rate due to Covid-19, it probably has the best recovery rate in the world, said Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Saturday.
Harsh Vardhan said ”contrary to what the experts had claimed about the number of cases reaching 300 million in the country, including five-six million deaths, by July-August, India had less than three million cases, out of which 2.2 million have already recovered”.
“As far as COVID-19 numbers are concerned, our fatality rate, 1.87 per cent, is really low and we have probably the best recovery rate (75 per cent) in the world. We have around 1,500 testing labs now. It is a great achievement in itself,” Harsh Vardhan told ANI here.