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India has lowest Covid-19 cases, lowest death rate
KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 7/8/2020 1:44:11 AM
NEW DELHI, July 7: The Government on Tuesday took pride on India recording the lowest cases of COVID-19 and the lowest deaths per million population, giving credit to its preparedness that continuously improved the recovery rate and resulted in low case fatality rate.
It quoted the Situation Report 168 dated July 6 of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to point out that India’s cases per million population is 505.37 while the global average is at 1453.25. The report shows that the Chile has witnessed 15,459.8 cases of COVID-19 per million population, while Peru, US, Brazil and Spain have 9070.8, 8560.5, 7419.1 and 5358.7 cases per million population respectively.
The WHO report also shows that India has one of the lowest deaths per million population. India’s cases of death per million population is 14.27 while the global average is more than its four times, at 68.29. The UK has witnessed 651.4 cases of COVID-19 related deaths per million population, while the metric for Spain, Italy, France and US is 607.1, 576.6, 456.7 and 391.0 respectively.
The government also cited the enhanced focus on “Test, Trace, Treat”, further augmented with various measures to facilitate widespread COVID-19 testing by States/UTs.