Haryana’s cure rate 4th best among states with 50+ cases

Bhartesh Singh Thakur

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 18

As Haryana is entering Lockdown 4.0, it’s Covid recovery rate as of now is the fourth best among states having over 50 positive cases. While Kerala is at the top while Punjab is a close second.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s website, Kerala has 78.89 per cent of recovery rate. Here, 630 cases have been recorded so far, of them 497 have been discharged. Punjab is a close second with a recovery rate of 78.13 per cent. Here, 1,980 cases have been recorded and 1,547 have cured so far.

They are followed by Chhattisgarh, which has a recovery rate of 68.60 per cent and where 59 patients have cured of total 69. Meanwhile, the national recovery rate is over 38.29 per cent.

Health Minister Anil Vij said, initially, there was a shortage of ventilators but now the state had 1,047 machines and Maruti Suzuki recently donated 50 more sets, which had been installed in government hospitals. On the complaint of the state chapter of the IMA about authentic PPE kits and N-95 masks, Vij offered them to buy it from government hospitals.

Meanwhile, a few states and UTs, including Andaman and Nicobar Islands (100 per cent), Arunachal Pradesh (100 per cent), Mizoram (100 per cent) and Meghalaya (84.62 per cent), have better recovery rate but the number of patients there are less than 50.