Ladakh tops COVID recovery in India, cure rate in Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, HP surpass India’s average

Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 10 

Even as COVID-19 pandemic spreads, the latest trends show that as many as 18 states have recovery rates better than the national average and 30 states and UTs have fatality rates lower than the India average.

Overall COVID cure rate and death rate in India is 62.42 per cent and 2.72 per cent respectively.

Ladakh is currently leading the recovery graph in India with a cure rate of 86.73 per cent.

Chandigarh (77.06 per cent), Haryana (74.91 per cent), Himachal Pradesh (74.21 per cent) and Punjab (69.26 per cent) are also among states where the cure percentages are much higher than the national average.

On mortality trends too, Ladakh is among the best performers in India with 0.09 per cent case fatality rate as against India’s 2.72 per cent.

States in the north – Himachal Pradesh (0.96 per cent), Chandigarh (1.34 per cent), Haryana (1.48 per cent) and Punjab (2.56 per cent) have posted fatality rates lower than India’s average.

The government on Friday said trends of progressive increases in the number of recovered COVID-19 patients continued and were improving.

Overall COVID caseload reached 7,93,802, with the last 24 hours seeing 19,138 COVID-19 patients getting cured, taking the cumulative figure of recovered cases among COVID-19 patients to 4,95,515 on Friday.

There are now 2,76,882 active cases under medical supervision.

As of today, India has 1218 Dedicated COVID Hospitals, 2705 Dedicated COVID Healthcare Centres and 10,301 COVID Care Centres.

The 18 states with an encouraging and upward trend in recovery rates, better than India’s, include West Bengal, UP, Odisha, Mizoram, Jharkhand, Bihar, Gujarat, MP, Tripura, Rajasthan, Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand apart from Ladakh, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana.

Thirty states with case fatality rate lower than 2.72 per cent include six states and UTs which have zero fatalities so far. These are Manipur, Nagaland, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Sikkim.

Other states and UTs with mortality rate lower than the national average are Tripura, Ladakh, Assam, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Odisha, Bigar, HP, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Pucudherry, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Karnataka, JK, Meghalaya, Arunachal, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Punjab and UP.