Covid-19 recovery rate rises to 70.77%, fatality rate down at 1.96%: Govt

The Covid-19 recovery rate has risen to 70.77 per cent on Thursday with the total number of patients recuperating from the disease reaching nearly 1.7 million, while the case fatality rate has further declined to 1.96 per cent, the Union Health Ministry said.

It said "record-high" recoveries have led to a decline in the "actual caseload" of the country, which is the number of active cases, and currently is only 27.27 per cent of the total cases.

The number of recoveries from Covid-19 exceed active cases by more than 1 million.

The country recorded the highest 56,383 recoveries in 24