20 countries have reported nearly 200% more deaths than in India, says Health Ministry official New Delhi: As many as 20 countries together having the same population size as that of India have reported 84 times the number of cases detected in this country, according to the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday.
Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary Health Ministry, said compared to the 20 nations where maximum COVID-19 cases have been reported, India has reported only 1/200 times the number of deaths as the total number of deaths in these 20 countries.
The recovery rate of coronavirus patients has increased to 23.3%, he added. "From the WHO data on April 27, we observed the number of confirmed cases in these 20 countries and compared it with confirmed