India has highest global Covid recoveries
India has overtaken the United States of America to record the highest coronavirus recoveries in the world, the Health Ministry tweeted, according to NDTV. According to the latest Health Ministry data, more than 42 lakh people have beaten COVID-19 in the country till now. Some 41 lakh 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, the source added.