India defies coronavirus global mortality rate trend

New Delhi : Most of the countries are fighting to contain the number of rising deaths due to coronavirus, but India has emerged out to be going against the trend as it registered very low mortality rate amid lockdown.

With a population of 1.3 billion, India’s COVID-19 mortality rate is at about 3.7 per cent, which is less than half of the world’s average mortality rate in the pandemic.

According to official figures, Italy’s death rate stands close to 12.7 per cent, UK at 12 per cent, 9.73 per cent in Spain and nearly 4 per cent in the US. Meanwhile, the global mortality rate stands at around 6 per cent as of now.

Earlier on Friday, the Health Ministry announced that the doubling of coronavirus cases in India now stands at 10 days. It was five days during last week of March.

Barring major hotspots like Delhi, Maharashtra and Gujarat, the death toll in India has left doctors and medical experts stunned, in a good way, as to how the impact of the virus has not impacted as severely here as it did in other countries.

More than 2.7 million people were infected across the globe with around 190,000 deaths till date. Whereas India registered 723 deaths among over 23,000 positive coronavirus cases.