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India has Highest Global COVID-19 recoveries, overtakes US: Health Ministry

New Delhi
September 19, 2020

India has overtaken the United States of America to record the highest Coronavirus recoveries in the world, the Health Ministry tweeted. According to the latest Health Ministry data, more than 42 lakhs people have beaten COVID-19 in the country till now.

The Ministry of Health credited the country's high recovery rate (79.28 %) - the highest in the world - to the Central government led "focused, calibrated, responsive and effective measures of early identification through high and aggressive testing, prompt surveillance and tracking coupled with standardized high quality clinical care have together resulted in this global achievement".

Globally, India is the second worst-hit country by the pandemic and accounts for almost 17 % of all cases in the world.