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COVID-19 fatality rate falls to 2.43 per cent, confirms Health Ministry

News | 21/07/2020 11:10 PM | Click to read full article

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday asserted that India’s coronavirus fatality rate is one of the lowest in the world and thanked health care workers and doctors for their tremendous effort in bringing down the COVID-19 deaths in the country.

“Aggressive testing is necessary to bring down COVID-19 positivity rate. The aim is to maintain this level of testing so as to bring down the positivity rate below 5 per cent.”

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