Thomas Isaac, Kerala’s Finance Minister, writing in the Indian Express comparing Kerala’s record on COVID-19 with the rest of India, says:
The recovery rate in Kerala is nearly 50% while the all-India average is around 11. While the mortality rate among the infected is 0.5% in Kerala, the all-India average is 3.4%. The transmission rate of a primary carrier is 2.6 while in Kerala it is only 0.4. (Isaac 2020)