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India is doing better in comparison to several other nations and the growth factor of Coronavirus cases has declined 40 per cent in India, Union health ministry said today. "We have been witnessing average growth factor at 1.2 since April 1 which stood at 2.1 between March 15 and March 13. Hence, there is 40 per cent decline in average growth factor," health ministry said in a daily press briefing today.The ministry also said that the doubling rate of cases in the country has increased from 3 days in March to 6.1 days now. "Before lockdown, doubling rate of COVID19 cases was about 3 days, but according to data in the past 7 days, the doubling rate of cases now stands at 6.2 days. Doubling rate in 19 States, Union Territories are even lower than average doubling rate," Lav Aggrawal, Health Ministry secretary said.He also said that the doubling rate is lower than the national level in 19 states and UTs -- Kerala, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Ladakh, Puducherry, Delhi, Bihar, Odisha, TN, Andhra Pradesh , UP, Punjab, Assam, Tripura.Aggarwal also said that India is doing better in comparison to several other developed nations."The ratio between recovered COVID19 patients and deaths stands at 80:20 in India which is higher than that in several other counties," Aggarawal said.