India records highest recoveries in world
Sunday, 20 September 2020
More than 30.76 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 957,546 have died, according to Worldometers tally, report agencies.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
India has overtaken the United States of America to record the highest coronavirus recoveries in the world, the Health Ministry tweeted. According to the latest Health Ministry data, more than 4.2 million people have beaten Covid-19 in the country till now. Some 4.1 million people have recovered in the US.
The Ministry of Health credited the country's high recovery rate of 79.28 per cent to the Central government-led "focused, calibrated, responsive and effective measures of early identification through high and aggressive testing, prompt surveillance and tracking coupled with standardised high quality clinical care have together resulted in this global achievement".
Globally, India is the second worst-hit country by the pandemic and accounts for almost 17 per cent of all cases in the world.
Record number of Covid recoveries comes in the backdrop of India reporting the highest number of new coronavirus cases in the world - an average of 90,000 cases per day - since the beginning of September.
In September till now, the country has recorded 16,86,769 new cases of coronavirus and its positivity rate has increased to 10.58 per cent from 7.5 per cent in mid-July.
Meanwhile, the US will manufacture at least 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine before the end of the year and all Americans will have access to it by April, President Donald Trump said Friday.
Trump said his administration will "immediately" deliver vaccines to the American people after it is approved and that "distribution will begin within 24 hours after notice."
"Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month and we expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April and again I'll say even at that later stage, the delivery will go as fast as it comes," Trump told reporters at the White House.