A health worker collects swab sample for Covid-19 test of people visiting Sadar Bazar market near Sohna Chowk in Gurugram. (ANI photo)
Gurugram: Gurugram is the first district among 14 states and four union territories (UTs) to have topped the list with the highest recovery rate of 99.44%.
According to the central government’s COVID-19 portal, the recovery rate of Gurugram is much better than the national average of 97.1%.
Gurugram Deputy Commissioner Yash Garg said that this is possible only with the efforts of the District Health Department, which has taken several stringent measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 infection in the district.
Garg said that the rate of recovery of Kovid was measured in 14 major state capitals of the country.
These included Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Shimla (Himachal Pradesh), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and Kolkata (West Bengal).
“The recovery rate of Gurugram stood at 99.44 per cent, which stood first with the best recovery rate. Bhopal came second with a recovery rate of 99.13 per cent and Jaipur stood at the third position with 98.33 per cent,” Garg said.
Meanwhile, the recovery rate of four union territories is: Delhi 98.19 percent, Chandigarh 98.5%, Puducherry 96.92% and Andaman and Nicobar Islands 98.08%.
“During the second wave of Covid-19, Gurugram was one of the worst-hit cities like other big cities in the country, but with effective preparedness the district has dealt with the pandemic,” Garg said.
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