India's Goal To Reduce COVID-19 Mortality Below 1 Percent

India's COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.99% and the government aims to bring it down to less than 1.0%.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a meeting with the officials of the 10 worst affected states also advised them to carry out continuous containment, contact tracing and surveillance along with conducting testing and contact tracing of people close to infected cases within 72 hours.