Globally, India is the second worst-hit country by Covid pandemic with more than 53 lakh cases. (File)
India has overtaken the United States of America to record the highest coronavirus recoveries in the world, the Health Ministry tweeted. According to the latest Health Ministry data, more than 42 lakh people have beaten COVID-19 in the country till now. Some 41 lakh people have recovered in the US.
The Ministry of Health credited the country's high recovery rate of 79.28 per cent to the Central government-led "focused, calibrated, responsive and effective measures of early identification through high and aggressive testing, prompt surveillance and tracking coupled with standardised high quality clinical care have together resulted in this global achievement".
Globally, India is the second worst-hit country by the pandemic and accounts for almost 17 per cent of all cases in the world.
Today's record number of Covid recoveries comes in the backdrop of India reporting the highest number of new coronavirus cases in the world - an average of 90,000 cases per day - since the beginning of September.
In September till now, the country has recorded 16,86,769 new cases of coronavirus and its positivity rate has increased to 10.58 per cent from 7.5 per cent in mid-July.
Even though India's daily cases are among the highest in the world, the caseload, when compared with the population, is "among the lowest", the central government had said earlier. Deaths in India have been relatively low, and it has a fatality rate of 1.61 per cent, the latest inclusions from the 8 AM bulletin of the Health Ministry show.
Globally, more than 3.06 crore people have contracted the coronavirus since its outbreak in China's Wuhan last year, according to news agency AFP.