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Coronavirus live updates: Second wave death rate lower than first
Despite the high number of Covid-19 fatalities in recent months, the death rate in the second Covid wave in India remains lower than the first. However, the second-wave death rate is still climbing with states continuing to report a relatively high number of casualties and a few adding previous unacknowledged fatalities to the toll. Stay with TOI for all the updates:Read Less
On Friday, India reported 38,019 fresh cases and 559 deaths from the virus
So far, 2,55,923 deaths have been recorded in the second wave (since March 1), nearly 1 lakh more than the toll in the first wave (1.57 lakh)
Last month, the rate was even higher at 3.07%
In July so far, a death rate of 2.12% has been recorded
The overall CFR from the pandemic in India stands at 1.33%
So far, four-and-a-half months after it began, the CFR in the second wave is at 1.28%
The case fatality rate (CFR or death rate) in the first wave of the pandemic was 1.41%