Citing a World Health Organisation (WHO) situation report, the central government on Tuesday claimed the country had one of the lowest Coronavirus deaths and cases per million population. The recovery rate had increased to 61.13 per cent, it added. India recorded 22,252 new cases and 467 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally to 7,19,665 and death toll to 20,160.

"The WHO situation report, dated July 6, shows India has one of the lowest cases of COVID-19 per million population. India's cases per million is 505.37, while the global average is 1,453.25," the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. Chile has witnessed 15,459.8 cases of COVID-19 per million population, while Peru, the US, Brazil and Spain have 9,070.8, 8,560.5, 7,419.1 and 5,358.7 cases per million, respectively. Alluding to the report, the government said India had one of the lowest deaths per million population.