The number of active cases was 93,322, while 91,818 people recovered.
New Delhi:
The COVID-19 death rate in India has been falling steadily, now at 2.83%, which is much lower than that of countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, the Union’s health ministry said on Monday, while India had 230 deaths and its highest peak in a day of 8,392 cases in 24 hours.
India is the seventh country most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of number of infections, after the United States, Brazil, Russia, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy.
As the cure rate for coronavirus infections improves to 48.19% in India, the number of deaths, which now stands at 2.83%, has steadily declined, said the Ministry of Health.
The number of deaths in India from COVID-19 has risen to 5,394 and cases have soared to 1,90535 on Monday, according to the ministry’s morning update.
The number of active COVID-19 cases was 93,322 while 91,818 people have recovered so far, with 4,835 patients cured in the past 24 hours.
The recovery rate, now 48.19%, went from 11.42% on April 15 to 26.59% on May 3 and to 38.29% on May 18, the ministry said.
The case fatality rate is 2.83% against 6.19% worldwide, the ministry said.
From 3.3% on April 15, the death rate from COVID-19 in India fell to 3.25% on May 3 and fell to 3.15% on May 18, the statement said.
“A steady decline in the death rate in the country can be observed. The relatively low death rate is attributed to the continued focus on surveillance, rapid case identification and clinical case management,” said the ministry.
“Two specific trends are thus observed, while the recovery rate increases on the one hand, the number of deaths decreases on the other,” he said.
The ministry also said that analytical capacity has increased in the country thanks to 472 governments and 204 private laboratories.
Cumulatively, 38,37,207 samples have been tested so far for COVID-19, with 1,00,180 samples tested on Sunday.
Presenting the case fatality rate for the countries with the highest number of deaths, see the WHO status report dated May 31, the department said that the United States with 1.01.567 deaths had a death rate of fatality rate of 5.92%, while the UK with 38.376 deaths has a fatality rate of 14.07%.
Italy, Spain, France and Brazil, with 33,340, 29,043, 28,717 and 27,878 deaths, have a fatality rate (CFR) of 14.33 pc, 12.12 pc, 19 , 35 pc and 5.99 pc respectively.
Mexico, which reported 9,415 victims of COVID-19, has a CFR of 11.13%, Germany with 8,500 deaths has a CFR of 4.68% and Canada with 6,996 deaths has a CFR of 7.80 %.
Meanwhile, a group of health experts, including AIIMS physicians and two members of an ICMR research group on COVID-19, said that community transmission of coronavirus infection was well established in large sections or sub-populations of the country.
The government has maintained that the country has not yet reached the stage of community transmission of the disease.
The report compiled by experts from the Indian Public Health Association (IPHA), the Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM) and the Indian Association of Epidemiologists (IAE) has been submitted to the Prime Minister.
“It is not realistic to expect that the COVID-19 pandemic can be eliminated at this stage since community transmission is already well established across large sections or subpopulations of the country,” said The report.
“The expected benefit of this rigorous national lock-in was to spread the disease over a long period of time to smooth the curve and plan and manage effectively so that the health care delivery system is not overwhelmed. It seems to have been realized although after the 4 locking with extraordinary inconvenience and disruption to the economy and the life of the general public, “experts said in the report.
Of the 230 deaths reported since Sunday morning, 89 are in Maharashtra, 57 in Delhi, 31 in Gujarat, 13 in Tamil Nadu, 12 in Uttar Pradesh, eight in West Bengal, seven in Madhya Pradesh, five in Telangana, three in Karnataka , two in Andhra Pradesh and one in Bihar, Punjab and Rajasthan.
Out of a total of 5,394 deaths, Maharashtra leads with 2,286 deaths, followed by Gujarat with 1,038 deaths, Delhi with 473, Madhya Pradesh with 350, West Bengal with 317, Uttar Pradesh with 213 , from Rajasthan with 194, from Tamil Nadu with 173, from Telangana with 82 and Andhra Pradesh with 62 deaths.
The death toll reached 51 in Karnataka and 45 in Punjab.
Jammu and Kashmir has reported 28 deaths from the disease, Bihar has claimed 21, Haryana has claimed 20 lives, Kerala has claimed nine deaths while Odisha has reported seven deaths to date.
Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand have registered five COVID-19 deaths each, while Chandigarh and Assam have registered four deaths each so far.
Meghalaya and Chhattisgarh each reported a death related to COVID-19, according to ministry data.
Over 70% of deaths are due to co-morbidities, according to the Ministry of Health website.
