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Photos: India records 1 million recoveries from Covid-19
Updated On Jul 31, 2020 04:08 pm IST
India has managed to treat and discharge more than 1 million people who had taken ill due to the coronavirus disease Covid-19. This silver lining comes against the backdrop of as Covid-19 cases continuing to surge in various parts of India and daily caseloads now crossing the 50,000 mark. India has seen a continued increase in average daily recoveries through the month of July with an average of around 35,000 in the last week. The gap between recovered patients and active Covid-19 cases currently stands at more than 5 lakh as on July 31.
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A health worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) plays a game of carrom with patients in a women's ward at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) Village Sports Complex Covid-19 Care Centre in New Delhi on July 30. The number of people who have recovered from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in India crossed the 1 million mark on July 29. (T. Narayan / Bloomberg)
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A Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) health department worker collects a swab sample for COVID-19 testing in Kolkata on July 30. Most recent data available from the Union Health Ministry on July 30 shows that 1,057,805 people (64.5%) out of the total 1,638,870 infected across India have recovered from the disease while 335,747 have died. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)
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People out and about at a market in Chennai on July 29. According to the health ministry’s figures, 51% of all recoveries in the country have been posted just from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi. These three states are also the worst-hit regions in the country in terms of caseloads. (Arun Sankar / AFP)
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Swab samples collected for rapid antigen testing are pictured while a health worker in a kiosk collects attends to a person in Noida on July 30. The gap between recovered patients and the number of active cases has been a key statistic that highlights the ability of health care systems to cope with, and cure cases of Covid-19. (Sunil Ghosh / HT Photo)
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A health worker (R) checks the body temperature of a man at a containment zone in Chennai on July 30. The journey to a million recoveries took 150 days since March 2, but each additional quarter of that million has come at a faster pace. While the first 250,000 recoveries came in 114 days, successive quarters took only 17, 11 days and 8 days respectively. (Arun Sankar / AFP)
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A man in personal protective equipment(PPE) sprays disinfectant inside a shopping mall premises as part of an Unlock 3 reopening in Mumbai on July 30. 64.5% of all Covid-19 patients have now recovered across India as the country moves towards the third stage of its graded unlocking from August 1. This is higher than the global average of 61.9%. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)
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