India's testing capacity has surged to more than 12 lakh daily tests. Health Ministry said, higher than 6.6 crore total tests have been conducted across the country. Fourteen states and UTs have demonstrated better COVID response with higher Tests Per Million, TPM and commensurate lower Positivity Rate than the national average.

The national cumulative Positivity Rate is 8.52 per cent and the Tests Per Million stands at 48,028 today. Seventy-four per cent of the new confirmed cases are concentrated in 10 States and UTs. Maharashtra has alone contributed more than 18,000 followed by Andhra Pradesh with more than 7,000 cases.

Meanwhile, new recoveries in India have exceeded the new cases for the fifth consecutive day.

89,746 recoveries have been registered in the last 24 hours in the country, whereas the number of new confirmed cases stands at 83,347.With this, the total number of recoveries are 45,87,613. The Recovery Rate is 81.25% today.

India has the highest recovered cases in the world. It contributes 19.5% to the global recoveries.As India records more recoveries than the new cases, many States/UTs follow the suit.17 States/UTs have more new recoveries than new cases.

75% of the new recovered cases are being reported from ten States/UTs, viz. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Delhi, Kerala, West Bengal and Haryana.

Maharashtra continues to lead with more than 20,000 new cases of recovered patients. Andhra Pradesh contributed more than 10,000 to the single-day recoveries.