Covid-19: Daily growth rate shows decline as India crosses 900,000 mark

While total recovered cases are 1.8 times the active cases, 20 states and union territories have shown higher recovery rate than the national average of 63 per cent

As India crossed the 900,000 mark for Covid-19 cases, the health ministry said that the rate of growth in daily cases had declined to 3.24 per cent in July from over 31 per cent in March, even though the country had seen more 28,000 new cases daily for the last three days.

With various states and cities reimposing lockdown as Covid-19 cases surge, the health ministry said this was just an expansion of containment areas and should not be linked to lockdowns or unlocks.

“All containment areas have to follow a strict perimeter control or the cases will rise. Whenever