Key sentence:
- For the past 13 days in a row, India has recorded fewer than 300 deaths due to coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
- The country recorded 223 new fatalities on Wednesday, taking the total number of fatalities to 150,390.
- Just one single death per million population has been registered in India in the past seven days, as per health ministry data.
- “Mortality associated with Covid-19 in India has become one of the lowest in the world.
For the past 13 days in a row, India has recorded fewer than 300 deaths due to coronavirus disease (Covid-19), even as the overall number of people who have succumbed to viral infection in the world has exceeded 150,000.
The country recorded 223 new fatalities on Wednesday, taking the total number of fatalities to 150,390. On March 12, 2020, the very first death due to Covid-19 in the nation was confirmed.
The Union health ministry in their statement:
“There is a gradual decline in the number of confirmed daily fatalities in the world… Low mortality levels have been assured by a successful containment policy, including timely tracing and monitoring, aggressive and widespread testing, together with standardized clinical management procedures.
The successful implementation by the governments of the State/UT has resulted in early detection of hospitalized patients, prompt isolation as well as timely clinical management, the Union Ministry of Health said in a report.
Just one single death per million population has been registered in India in the past seven days, as per health ministry data, as well as the minister, attributes this to the successful Covid-19 management as well as response policy of the central government.
Death in cases per million:
In India, fewer individuals are dying of Covid-19 than in other countries, including many developed nations. According to global statistics, the United Kingdom has also seen 64 deaths per million population, Italy, as well as the United States, have 55, France has 35, Russia has 25, whereas Brazil has recorded 23 deaths per million population over the past seven days.
India has the lowest mortality as compared to other countries Dr GC Khilnani stated:
“Mortality associated with Covid-19 in India has become one of the lowest in the world, as well as the number has further decreased compared to the number of deaths that occurred in the nation at the beginning of the outbreak,” said Dr GC Khilnani, former head of the Department of Pulmonology as well as Sleep Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi.
Due to the standardization of Covid-19 care across India, the number of deaths has further decreased. We now know a lot more about diseases and treatments that are more successful than we knew at the start, and that’s made a big difference in saving people’s lives,” he continued.”
