Covit 19

India’s Covid-19 death toll hits 50,000 mark.The number of deaths from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in India exceeded 50,000 on Saturday, making it the fourth country — after the United States, Brazil and Mexico — to cross this bleak milestone as infections mount world over. However, India’s case fatality rate (CFR) — the proportion of deaths to the total recorded infections — at 1.9% is lower than the global average of 3.5%, indicating that the country has controlled deaths better than other nations with similar or higher caseload.