India has registered one of the lowest COVID-19 fatality rates in the world, the health ministry said today. The mortality rate of coronavirus patients has now reduced to 2.87% from 3.38% in April, Lav Agarwal, joint secretary, health ministry said.
Timely lockdown and early detection of coronavirus cases are the main reasons behind the low death toll in the country. While 4.4 deaths per lakh population have been reported across the world, India has witnessed about 0.3 deaths per lakh population, Agarwal said during his daily briefing on COVID-19 crisis in India.
The total number of coronavirus cases in the country stood at 145,380. The states recorded over 6,500 coronavirus cases for the last three days.