Fewer than eight people per lakh of population in India have been infected by the novel coronavirus, the Union Health Ministry said this evening, pointing out that this was significantly better than the global average of 62 people per lakh. The government also said India’s per lakh mortality rate was only 0.24, compared to the global average of 4.2.Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said 42,298 people have recovered from the illness so far and that the recovery rate (recoveries as a percentage of total cases) had improved steadily through the four phases of lockdown – from 7.1 per cent in March (when it was imposed) – to 39.62 per cent today.Domestic passenger flights will resume from Monday “in a calibrated manner”, the government said today. Flights were stopped in late-March, when the country went into lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus.
