Recovery conundrum: India shows Covid-19 patients recovering faster

Data shows faster recovery for some states, with Delhi registering a recovery in three days, as against 7 days during the last four months of 2020

Although India's recovery data was always suspect, given the guidelines never specified that a negative test was necessary to declare a patient having recovered from Covid-19, the new rise in infections has further complicated matters.

A BS analysis shows that the recovery time for cases has declined since the last wave. While it took 11 days on average for a person to recover from Covid-19 during the first wave, the country's recovery time on April 12 declined to 9 days.

The recovery time is