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India has one Covid-19 death per lakh population, global average is 6: Govt
New Delhi: The WHO Situation Report 154 dated 22 June, 2020 shows that India has one of the lowest deaths per lakh population, said Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday.India’s cases of death per lakh population is 1.00 while the global average is more than its six times, at 6.04, the ministry said in a statement.The UK has witnessed 63.13 cases of Covid-19 related deaths per lakh population, while the metric for Spain, Italy and US is 60.60, 57.19 and 36.30 respectively.India is the fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic after the US, Brazil and Russia.According to the Johns Hopkins University, which has been compiling COVID-19 data from all over the world, India is at the eighth position in terms of the death toll.Of the