The total number of patients who recovered from Covid-19 reached around 8.5 lakh mark today. The COVID-19 recovery rate has now improved to 63.53% in the country.

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry today said that a total of 8,49,432 people have recovered in India so far. In the past 24 hours, 32,223 people have recovered from the disease.

The Health Ministry said, a total of 48,916 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the country within 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 13,36,861. Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 4,56,071. In a single day, 757 deaths have been reported taking the nationwide toll to 31,358. However, the case fatality rate is continuously declining in the country and it reached 2.34%.

It was reported that in terms of recovery rate of COVID-19 cases, Delhi stands at the top with 86.40% recovery rate followed by Ladakh, Haryana, Telangana, Assam and Gujarat. In these States and Union Territories the recovery rate is above 72%. Sixteen states and Union Territories have better recovery rates than the national average of 63.53%.

In terms of number of people who recovered from COVID-19, Maharashtra is leading the tally followed by Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Telangana. There are 30 States and Union Territories which have lower fatality rate than the national average of 2.34%. Among the total number of active cases, 68.33% caseloads are from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Meanwhile, the Union Government today said that for the first time, a record number of more than 4,20,000 COVID tests have been conducted in a single day. Union Health Ministry said, the tests per million has further increased to 11,485 and cumulative testing reached nearly one crore 60 lakh.

The Ministry said, a strong factor contributing to this achievement is the persistent increase in the number of labs from merely one in January, 2020 to 1,301 today. This includes 902 government labs and 399 in the private sector. Revised facilitative guidelines of testing by ICMR and all-round efforts by the governments have also aided in widespread testing.

The Centre has advised all States and Union Territories to keep up the strategy of Test, Track and Treat with aggressive testing. The Ministry said, it may lead to a higher number of daily positive cases initially but would eventually achieve a decline as has been demonstrated after Union Government’s targeted efforts in the National Capital region of Delhi.

The Case Fatality Rate continues on its downward trend and it has significantly dipped to 2.35% today. The Ministry said, India has one of the lowest fatality rates in the world.

During the last 24 hours, more than 32,000 COVID patients have recovered and the cumulative number of recovered cases has reached to over 8,49,000 today. The recovery rate has achieved another high of 63.54 per cent. The Health Ministry said, the gap between recovered patients and active COVID-19 cases has further increased to over 3,93,000.