The covid-19 situation in India has improved because of the nationwide lockdown, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan maintained on Sunday, even as the number of coronavirus positive cases in the country crossed 130,000, with the number of fatalities nearing 4,000. “The doubling rate of cases stands at 13.0 over a three-day window, 13.1 over a seven-day window, and 12.7 over a 14-day window.
Prior to the lockdown, on 25 March, the doubling rate was 3.2 over a period of three days, 3.0 over a seven-day period, and 4.1 over 14 days.
Similarly, the fatality rate was at 2.9%, while the recovery rate has improved to 41.2%," he said. The testing capacity for covid-19 has been ramped up across public and private laboratories, the health ministry