The recovery rate of COVID19 patients in India has increased from 38.29% on May 18 to 47.4%. A total of 11,264 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours, the highest recorded in a day. So far, a total of 82,369 patients have been cured of COVID19. The death toll stands at 5028.
The doubling time improved from 13.3% to 15.4 in the last three days and the fatality rate is 2.86%.
The Union Health Ministry informed that city/regional clusters have been established in a hub-and-spoke model to enhance testing across the country.
The country has seen a surge in number of cases being reported as testing has been increased. Cumulatively, 36,12,242 tests have been conducted with 1,26,842 testing positive.
The Hindu reported quoting a health official saying that the institutes and labs which have the capacity and expertise for both sample collection, handling/processing (BSL-2 facility) and testing (RT-PCR) will serve as hubs (labs approved by Ministry) and that they will involve a number of labs which have RT-PCR machines and the requisite manpower as their extended testing facilities.
So far, 19 city/regional clusters have been established that includes Ahmedabad, Benaras, Delhi/NCR, Madhya Pradesh, Palampur, and Rajasthan among others.