New Delhi: India reported a record increase of 96,550 new positive cases of coronavirus on Friday, taking its tally to 45,62,414.
The health ministry says, “There has been an unprecedented surge in COVID19 recoveries in India. There is more than 100% increase in patients recovered and discharged in the past 29 days.”
As many as 34,717,83 people have recovered so far from the infection. India’s recovery rate is currently 77.74%.
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While as, The Union health ministry directed all states and Union territories to mandatorily conduct reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR test on symptomatic people who test negative for the coronavirus in rapid antigen tests. The latter has a high rate of false negative results.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulates the pace at which vaccines, diagnostics and treatments for Covid-19 are being developed. But, while admitting that it is astonishing, he adds that more needs to be done.
“We need to rapidly scale up our clinical trials, manufacturing, licensing and regulation capacity so that these products can get to people and start saving lives,” he said.
Globally, the coronavirus has infected more than 2.8 crore people and killed 9,07,980, according to the Johns Hopkins University. The number of worldwide recoveries has crossed 1.88 crore
