Recovery conundrum: India shows Covid-19 patients recovering faster

Data shows faster recovery for some states, with Delhi registering a recovery in three days, as against 7 days during the last four months of 2020

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Economic recovery | Indian Economy | Lockdown

Ishaan Gera  |  New Delhi 

Although India's recovery data was always suspect, given the guidelines never specified that a negative test was necessary to declare a patient having recovered from Covid-19, the new rise in infections has further complicated matters.

A BS analysis shows that the recovery time for cases has declined since the last wave. While it took 11 days on average for a person to recover from Covid-19 during the first wave, the country's recovery time on April 12 declined to 9 days. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void ...

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First Published: Wed, April 14 2021. 11:00 IST
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