India is reporting a daily COVID-19 Positivity Rate (PR) of just below 7.5% while the cumulative PR is less than 8.5%, said the Union Health Ministry, in a release issued on Friday, while stating that the country for two successive days now has conducted more than 11.7 lakh sample tests across the country. 11,69,765 samples for COVID-19 were tested in the last 24 hours.
“India has achieved the goal of enhancing the daily testing capacity to more than 10 lakh daily tests. No other country has achieved these levels of very high daily testing. With this steep exponential rise in daily testing, the cumulative tests are nearing 4.7 crore. The cumulative tests as on date have reached 4,66,79,145,’’ said the Health Ministry.
It added that the sustained higher testing on a wide scale enables early diagnosis, prompt isolation and timely hospitalisation. Effective treatment based on standard treatment protocol, both in supervised home isolation and in hospitals, also results in lower mortality rate. With the aim to reduce the fatality rate below 1%, India’s Case Fatality Rate has touched 1.74% following a gradient of steady and sustained decline.
The Ministry said that as per its data, 2% COVID-19 cases are in ICUs and less than 3.5% of the active cases occupy oxygen supported beds currently.
“With the recovery of 66,659 in the last 24 hours, India has continued its trajectory of posting more than 60,000 recoveries for the 8th consecutive day. The higher number of recoveries has also led to a steady enhancement in the difference between the recovered and active ones. This difference has crossed 22 lakh and ensured that the actual caseload of the country viz. the active cases (8,31,124 which are under active medical care), has reduced and currently comprises only 21.11% of the total positive cases,’’ added the Ministry in its release.