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Government of India
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
02 JUL 2020 3:29PM by PIB Delhi
UPDATES ON COVID-19

Coordinated efforts at all levels of government for prevention, containment and management of COVID-19 are showing encouraging results with consistently increasing gap between recoveries and active cases. As on date, there are 1,32,912 recovered cases more than the active COVID-19 cases.

 

Timely clinical management of COVID-19 cases has resulted in more than 10,000 daily recoveries. During the last 24 hours, a total of 11,881 COVID-19 patients have been cured, taking the cumulative figure to 3,59,859. This further takes the recovery rate to 59.52%.

 

Presently, there are 2,26,947 active cases and all are under medical supervision.

 

The top 15 States in terms of absolute numbers of COVID-19 recovered cases are:

 

S.No.

State/UT

Absolute Recovery

1

Maharashtra

93,154

2

Delhi

59,992

3

Tamil Nadu

52,926

4

Gujarat

24,030

5

Uttar Pradesh

16,629

6

Rajasthan

14,574

7

West Bengal

12,528

8

Madhya Pradesh

10,655

9

Haryana

10,499

10

Telangana

8,082

11

Karnataka

8,063

12

Bihar

7,946

13

Andhra Pradesh

6,988

14

Assam

5,851

15

Odisha

5,353

 

 

The top 15 states in terms of recovery rate are:

 

S.No.

State / UT

Recovery Rate

1

Chandigarh

82.3%

2

Meghalaya

80.8%

3

Rajasthan

79.6%

4

Uttarakhand

78.6%

5

Chhattisgarh

78.3%

6

Tripura

78.3%

7

Bihar

77.5%

8

Mizoram

76.9%

9

Madhya Pradesh

76.9%

10

Jharkhand

76.6%

11

Odisha

73.2%

12

Gujarat

72.3%

13

Haryana

70.3%

14

Ladakh

70.1%

15

Uttar Pradesh

69.1%

 

 

As per the “Test, Trace, Treat” strategy, there has been a steady rise in the samples tested every day with more than 90 lakh samples being tested till date. During the last 24 hours 2,29,588 samples have been tested. The cumulative number of samples tested, as on date, is 90,56,173.

 

The testing lab network in the country is further strengthened. With 768 labs in the government sector and 297 private labs, there are as many as 1065 labs in the country. These include:

 

•     Real-Time RT PCR based testing labs: 578 (Govt: 366 + Private: 212)

•     TrueNat based testing labs: 398 (Govt: 370 + Private: 28)

•     CBNAAT based testing labs: 89 (Govt: 32 + Private: 57)

 

For all authentic & updated information on COVID-19 related technical issues, guidelines & advisories please regularly visit: https://www.mohfw.gov.in/ and @MoHFW_INDIA.

 

Technical queries related to COVID-19 may be sent to technicalquery.covid19@gov.in and other queries on ncov2019@gov.in and @CovidIndiaSeva .

 

In case of any queries on COVID-19, please call at the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare helpline no.: +91-11-23978046 or 1075 (Toll-free). List of helpline numbers of States/UTs on COVID-19 is also available at https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/coronvavirushelplinenumber.pdf .

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