Chandigarh, Ladakh and Uttarakhand are respectively the top three states/UTs with better COVID-19 recovery rate than the national average of 60.77 per cent.
There are a total of 21 states/UTs with better COVID-19 recovery rate than the national average.
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With a recovery rate of 79.3 per cent, Meghalaya has the best recovery rate among the states of the northeast.
In a statement on Sunday, the Union Health Ministry informed that India’s case count mounted to 6.73 lakh and the death toll rose to 19,268.
“Presently, there are 2,44,814 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country,” the ministry said.
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The ministry further informed that the recovered cases exceeded the active cases by 1,64,268 as of Sunday.
A total of 14,856 COVID-19 patients were cured in the last 24 hours.
These 21 states and UTs with better recovery rate than the national rate are- Chandigarh (85.9 per cent), Ladakh (82.2 per cent), Uttarakhand (80.9 per cent), Chhattisgarh (80.6 per cent), Rajasthan (80.1 per cent), Mizoram (79.3 per cent), Tripura (77.7 per cent), Madhya Pradesh (76.9 per cent), Jharkhand (74.3 per cent), Bihar (74.2 per cent), Haryana (74.1 per cent), Gujarat (71.9 per cent), Punjab (70.5 per cent), Delhi (70.2 per cent), Meghalaya (69.4 per cent), Odisha (69.0 per cent), Uttar Pradesh (68.4 per cent), Himachal Pradesh (67.3 per cent), West Bengal (66.7 per cent), Assam (62.4 per cent), and Jammu and Kashmir (62.4 per cent).