The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday said that the two northeastern states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh witnessed the lowest fatality rate due to the COVID-19 pandemic among the 30 states and union territories.
According to the data of the health ministry, Assam has registered 0.25 percent case fatality rate and Arunachal registered 0.19 percent which is the lowest in comparison to the national average of 1.92 percent.
However, Assam registered 23701 active cases while Arunachal registered 843 active cases so far.
Meanwhile, the state of Assam registered 203 deaths due to COVID-19 while five people have succumbed to the disease in Arunachal Pradesh.
India on the day has set another record in COVID-19 tests conducted per day.
Nearly 9 lakh (8,99,864) tests have been conducted in a single day, taking the total number to 3,09,41,264.
"Even with such a high level of testing, the positivity has remained low i.e. 8.81 percent compared to the weekly national average i.e. 8.84 percent. Test, track and treatment are behind such a good trend," the health ministry said.
India has also recorded the highest single day recoveries of 57,937 in the last 24 hours.
This is higher than the confirmed cases added during the same period (55,079).
With more patients recovering and being discharged from hospitals and home isolation (in case of mild and moderate cases), the total recoveries have reached nearly 20 lakhs (19,77,779).
With this the gap between the recovered patients and the active cases has crossed 13 lakhs on Wednesday.
India's recovery rate touches 73.18 per cent.
