Health Ministry says active Covid-19 cases are below 7.5 lakh

According to the Health Ministry, "India has sustained its trend of maintaining the active cases below the 7.5 lakh mark for the 2nd successive day."

It says that with a high number of COVID patients recovering every day, India’s steady trend of posting a high level of daily recoveries also continues.

61,775 recoveries have been registered in the last 24 hours in the country whereas the new confirmed cases are only 54,044. This is when 10,83,608 tests have been conducted in the last 24 hours in the country.

Successful implementation of TEST, TRACK, and TREAT strategy along with timely and appropriate treatment has led to the consistent slide in the Fatality Rate. The national Case Fatality Rate (CFR) has fallen to 1.51% on October 21.

The Centre has advised States/UTs to aim at bringing down the CFR to below 1%. Presently 14 States/UTs are reporting Case Fatality Rate less than 1%.

India’s total recoveries stand at 67,95,103 today. A higher number of single-day recoveries has resulted in a continuous increase in the national recovery rate, which is fast approaching 89% (88.81%).

77% of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.