New Delhi: India has one of the lowest COVID-19 cases per lakh population in the world and continues to widen the gap between recovered and active cases, said the Union Health Ministry on Monday.The health ministry said that World Health Organisation (WHO) Situation Report- 153 presented on June 21, showed that India has one of the lowest cases per lakh population in spite of its high population density."India's cases per lakh population are 30.04 while the global average is more than its triple at 114.67.
The US has 671.24 cases per lakh population while the metric for Germany, Spain and Brazil is 583.88, 526.22 and 489.42 respectively," stated health ministry press statement.This low figure is thus a testimony to the graded, pre-emptive.