Bhubaneswar: Odisha stood at the second position in the country in terms of Covid recoveries with a recovery rate of 99.13 per cent.
Arunachal Pradesh has topped the list with a recovery rate of 99.61 per cent.
According to the data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday, three other states– Bihar (99.09 per cent), Mizoram (99.09 per cent) and Andhra Pradesh (99.05 per cent) — have a recovery rate of above 99 per cent against the national average of 97.05 per cent.
Meanwhile six other northeastern states – Nagaland (98.83 per cent), Tripura (98.78 per cent), Assam (98.66 per cent), Meghalaya (98.49 per cent), Manipur (98.25 per cent) and Sikkim (96.44 per cent) – also exceeded national recovery rate.
Mizoram has earned the distinction of having the lowest death rate of 0.21 per cent while Punjab remained in the top position in Covid-19 mortality at 3.24 per cent against the national fatality rate of 1.43 per cent.
Meanwhile, No COVID-19 death has been reported in Odisha for a week now, even as 79 fresh cases pushed the tally to 3,35,151, a health department official said on Monday.
The coastal state’s coronavirus death toll remained unchanged at 1,906. The last fatality was reported from Sundergarh district on January 25.
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