Despite surging fresh coronavirus cases, India's COVID-19 case fatality rate is progressively falling and is currently at 2.49 per cent, which is one of the lowest in the world, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday.7,00,086 people having recovered COVID-19 so far in India with 22,664 patients declared cured over the past 24 hrs. Meanwhile, a total of 1,40,47,908 samples have been tested for COVID as per the Indian Council of Medical Research till Sunday.