More than thousand people recover from COVID19 in single day; Recovery rate improves to 27.5% in India

A total of
42 thousand 836 fresh confirmed cases of COVID- 19 have been reported in the
country so far. Out of them, 11,761 patients have recovered after treatment and
were discharged from the hospitals while 1,389 patients have died.

Briefing
media in New Delhi, Health Ministry official said that the recovery rate of
patients from COVID-19 infection has gone up to 27.52 per cent. He also said
that as many as 1,074 COVID-19 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours
which is the highest number of recoveries recorded in one day,

He also
informed that outcome ratio which indicates status of closed COVID19 cases
among people who either recovered or passed away, has improved to 90:10 today
which was 80:20 on 17th of April.