New Delhi: In a span of just 12 days, India has managed to double its doubling rate to 11.3%. On 17th of April, India’s doubling rate or the duration when the number of positive cases doubles, was 6.2%. Even it has risen four-times since the pre-lockdown period.
“The doubling rate has risen to 11.3 days in the country. Although the global mortality rate is around 7%, India is having a mortality rate of around 3% & around 86% of fatality of persons with co-morbidity” said Union health minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan.
In the last 24 hours, India has reported as many as 1813 new cases and 71 deaths. With this, total number of cases in India’s has risen to 31787 which include 22982 active cases, 1008 deaths, 7797 recoveries ‘
With 7797 persons have recovered from the deadly virus, India’s recovery rate has also improved to 24%.
