The country's COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to around 93.52 per cent. During the last 24 hours, more than 44,000 people have recovered from COVID-19. The Health Ministry said the total number of recoveries has gone up to over 83,35,000. The actual caseload currently comprises only 5.01 per cent of the total positive cases. Presently, the total number of active cases in the country is around 4,46,000.

During the past 24 hours, 38, 617 new cases were reported taking the total number of positive cases in the country to over 89 lakh. Currently, India’s Case Fatality Rate is at 1.47 per cent, which is one of the lowest globally.

During the last 24 hours, 474 deaths were reported taking the toll to 1,30,993. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, more than 9,37,000 tests were conducted during the last 24 hours. The total number of samples tested so far has reached 12 crores 74 lakh.

There has been a continuous decline in the average daily cases since the past many weeks.

Apart from the successful dissemination of COVID Appropriate Behaviour among the varied population groups, this trend assumes wider significance as many countries in Europe and America continue to see a surge in their COVID19 positive numbers.

With 6,620 persons recovering from COVID, Kerala saw the most number of recoveries. Maharashtra registered 5,123 daily recoveries while Delhi reported 4,421 new recoveries.

Ten States/UTs have contributed 76.15% of the new cases. Delhi reported 6,396 cases in the last 24 hours. Kerala recorded 5,792 new cases while West Bengal reported 3,654 new cases yesterday.

78.9% of the 474 case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours are from Ten States/UTs.

20.89% of new fatalities reported are from Delhi which reported 99 deaths. Maharashtra and West Bengal follow with 68 and 52 new deaths, respectively.