India has occupied the top spot in the world in terms of total COVID-19 recoveries as the country constitutes 19% of total global recoveries, said the Union ministry of health on Monday (September 21).
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"India occupies the top position in the world in terms of total recoveries. More than 43 lakhs have recovered. India's recoveries constitute 19% of total global recoveries," Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said in a tweet quoting the statistics given by Worldometers.
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According to the Worldometers data, after India, the USA constitutes 18.70% of total COVID-19 recoveries and Brazil's share of total recoveries stood at 16.90%.
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India's COVID-19 tally reached 54.88 lakh with 86,961 people being infected in the past 24 hours, while 43,96,399 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 80.12% on Sunday, according to the Union health ministry data.
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The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 31,223,591. While 22,817,424 have recovered, 964,761 have died so far.
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The US, the worst-hit country, has 7,004,768 cases. It is followed by India, which has 5,485,612 cases, Brazil (4,544,629) and Russia (1,103,399).
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Worldometers, run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers, gives live world statistics on population and disease count, among others.
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