India's recovery rate improves, very low death rate

NEW DELHI, May 27: India's recovery rate compared to total as 1.518 lakh tested positive improved further to 42.44 on Wednesday with 3934 more COVID-19 patients cured and out of hospital, raising the total recoveries to 64,425. In terms of 32.42 lakh tested so far, the recovery rate is 1.98% as against the death rate of 0.13%.
There was a substantial increase of some 32,000 more tested in a single day raising the total tested in a day to 1.16 lakh as against 92,528 a day earlier. There were 170 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising the total COVID-19 deaths in the country to 4337 which is 2.85% of those tested positive and just 0.13% of the total persons tested so far.
Maharashtra topped with 54758 tested positive and 1792 deaths as against 16954 recoveries while Tamil Nadu came second in terms of 17728 confirmed positive cases, though with comparative lesser deaths of 127.
Gujarat has the second highest 915 deaths. It came third in terms of 14821 tested positive. Delhi follows with 14465 positives and 288 deaths. Madhya Pradesh has the third highest 305 deaths, though lower number of 7024 positive cases. West Bengal reported 283 deaths so far and 4009 confirmed COVID-19 cases. Both Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan have 170 deaths each, though Rajasthan recorded 7536 positive cases as against 6548 in Uttar Pradesh.
Meanwhile, ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for Covid-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories. As of now, total 624 laboratories across India have been given approval to conduct the tests for Covid-19 including 435 government laboratories and 189 private laboratories' chains.