Covid-19's 2nd wave hits northeast India harder (IANS Analysis)
Covid-19's 2nd wave hits northeast India harder (IANS Analysis)
Last Updated: Mon, May 31st, 2021, 17:40:20hrs
According to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry's Covid-19 data on Monday, the recovery rates of all the eight northeastern states -- Sikkim (72.24 per cent), Mizoram (74.58 per cent), Nagaland (74.90 per cent), Meghalaya (77.10 per cent), Manipur (81.41 per cent), Arunachal Pradesh (85.54 per cent), Assam (85.97 per cent) and Tripura (86.17 per cent) -- are well below the national recovery rate of 91.60 per cent.
The Covid-19 related death ratios in four of the states -- Nagaland (1.68 per cent), Sikkim (1.65 per cent), Meghalaya (1.60 per cent) and Manipur (1.59 per cent) -- are worse than the national average of 1.17 per cent.