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Nearly half of coronavirus patients have recovered: Health ministry data

More than 95,000 people have recovered as of Tuesday morning, while 5,598 have died.

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Ruchika Chitravanshi New Delhi
As Covid-19 cases in India inch closer to the 200,000-mark, nearly half of the patients have been cured, taking the recovery rate to over 48 per cent, according to the health ministry data.

More than 95,000 people have recovered as of Tuesday morning, while 5,598 have died, showed data even as the ICMR cautioned the country was “very far away from he peak” of the coronavirus pandemic.

 India has the seventh-highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world, just ahead of France. “It is a wrong comparison... it should take into account the population of our country,” said Lav Agarwal, joint secretary,