India’s coronavirus recovery rate climbs to 64.5 percent, total cases crosses 1.53 million

India’s recovery rate saw a sharp increase from around 53 percent in mid-June to more than 64.50 percent on Wednesday with 35,286 patients discharged in the last 24 hours. The total recoveries stand at 988,029.

Meanwhile the tally of the coronavirus patients is now more than 1.53 million after 48,513 fresh cases and 768 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry on Wednesday.

The country added 946,176 Covid-19 cases to its tally till Wednesday—there were 585,493 infections on July 1 and now has 1,531,669 infections to its count. The number of fatalities stands at 34,193 so far.