Covid-19 update: National recovery rate improves to 80.12 per cent

India's covid tally has mounted 54.88 lakh with 86,961 being tested positive for the infection in the past 24 hours. 1,130 deaths in last 24 hour have taken the total fatality toll to 87,882. Total number of active Covid-19 cases in India stands at 1,00,3299. While 4,396,399 people have recovered so far.

According to data provided by health ministry, the national recovery rate has improved to 80.12 per cent in the country. The Covid-19 case fatality rate due to coronavirus has further declined to 1.6 per cent. There are 10,03,299 active cases in the country as of now, which comprises 18.28 per cent of the total caseload, the data further mentioned.

Total samples tested up to 20th September are 6,43,92,594 including 7,31,534 samples tested yesterday: Indian Council of Medical Research.

India, which enforced world's biggest lockdown in the backdrop of coronavirus disease, has been constantly grapling with the infection. And as per health experts, the country has not even seen the peak yet. While opposition leader has criticized PM Modi led BJP for their sudden lockdown, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday told Lok Sabha that the announcemnent was not sudden. He aadded that PM Mofi had prepared the nation ofr it throught the Janata Curfew on March 22.

“Five different studies have spoken about how many lives were saved due to the lockdown. If the lockdown was not used properly and things were not monitored, the dedicated 17,000 covid facilities would not have come up,” he said.

As a part of Unlock 4.0, the Punjab government on Saturday allowed the opening of higher education institutions from September 21 for PhD scholars and postgraduate students pursuing technical and professional courses requiring experimental work. However, schools, colleges, and coaching centres will remain closed in the states.

The Hong Kong government on Sunday suspended flights from Air India till October 3 after a surge in the number of coronavius cases, according to several media reports.

In other news related to Covid-19, India has provided a $250-million( Rs 1,825 crore) aid to the Maldives to help it mitigate the pandemic's effect on its tourism-based economy.

India is the second worst-hit behind the US which has 67,99,044 cases and 1,99,474 deaths. The total number of cases in the world stands at 3,09,18,269 and the fatalities are 9,59,332.