New Delhi: May 19: During last 24 hours, a total of 2,350 COVID-19 patients have been cured. Thus, so far, a total of 39,174 patients have been cured of COVID-19. This means a recovery rate of 38.73% amongst COVID-19 patients. The recovery rate is improving continuously.
India currently has 58,802 active cases. These are all under active medical supervision. Of the active cases, only approx. 2.9% of the cases are in ICU.
In terms of case mortality per lakh population, India has so far about 0.2 deaths per lakh population vis-a-vis approx. 4.1 deaths per lakh population for the world as a whole. The status of deaths per lakh population for countries having the highest number of deaths, vide WHO situation report-119, is as follows:
| Countries | Total Deaths | Case mortality per lakh population |
| World | 3,11,847 | 4.1 |
| United States of America | 87180 | 26.6 |
| The United Kingdom | 34636 | 52.1 |
| Italy | 31908 | 52.8 |
| France | 28059 | 41.9 |
| Spain | 27650 | 59.2 |
| Brazil | 15633 | 7.5 |
| Belgium | 9052 | 79.3 |
| Germany | 7935 | 9.6 |
| Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 6988 | 8.5 |
| Canada | 5702 | 15.4 |
| Netherlands | 5680 | 33.0 |
| Mexico | 5045 | 4.0 |
| China | 4645 | 0.3 |
| Turkey | 4140 | 5.0 |
| Sweden | 3679 | 36.1 |
| India | 3163* | 0.2 |
* Latest figures updated for 19th May, 2020
The relatively low death figures represent timely case identification and clinical management of the cases.
A record number of 1,08,233 samples were tested yesterday in the country. So far a total of 24,25,742 samples have been tested.
From one laboratory conducting COVID-19 test in January, India has very rapidly increased its testing capacity by adding over 385 government laboratories and 158 private laboratories for testing in the country. Duly forging partnerships with all central government labs, state’s medical colleges, private medical colleges and private sector, the testing capacity in the country has been expanded. Other testing machines like TrueNAT and CBNAAT have also been mobilized to ramp up testing.
Through 14 AIIMS-like mentor institutions, handholding of labs across the country is undertaken to ensure adequate bio-safety standards and accreditation of the laboratories. To maintain steady supply of testing material to the labs, 15 depots have been created by roping in India Posts and private agencies for distribution. Many Indian companies have been supported to undertake production of testing material which was earlier primarily sourced from abroad. This has helped in maintaining steady supplies across the country.
Source: PIB
