India holds top position in terms of COVID recoveries globally: Health Ministry

NEW DELHI: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India, while quoting statistics given by Worldometers, said that India holds the top position in the world in terms of recoveries from COVID-19 with more than 43 lakh recovered patients. It said that India’s recoveries account for 19 per cent of the total recoveries worldwide.

After India, the United States of America accounts for 18.70 per cent of the total COVID-19 recoveries followed by Brazil, with a share of 16.90 per cent, according to Worldometers.

Dr Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, on Sunday, September 20, said that the government is providing every necessary assistance for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine in the country and different phases of clinical trials for three vaccine candidates are going on. Even before the World Health Organization’s (WHO) warning about the SARS-CoV-2 virus on January 30, India was prepared to deal with the pandemic and the advisory regarding it was issued on January 17, he said.

As per MoHFW’s data, India’s COVID-19 tally has crossed the 54 lakh mark with recoveries rising to 43,96,399 and the active cases to 10,03,299 and 87882 have succumbed to the deadly coronavirus till September 21, 2020.