The Central Government said that a total of seven lakh 82 thousand 607 people affected with Coronavirus have recovered so far and with this the recovery rate reached 63.18 per cent in the country.
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry today said, a record 29 thousand 557 people recovered in the past 24 hours. This is the highest number of recoveries in one day since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country.
The Health Ministry said, the highest number of 45 thousand 720 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the country within the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 12 lakh 38 thousand 635. Presently, the total number of active Corona cases in the country is four lakh 26 thousand 167. In the single day, one thousand 129 deaths were reported taking the nationwide toll to 29 thousand 861. However, the case fatality rate is continuously declining in the country and it has reached 2.41 per cent.
Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that a total of three lakh 50 thousand 823 tests of Corona virus samples were conducted by the various laboratories in the past 24 hours. So far, laboratories have conducted one crore 50 lakh 75 thousand 369 tests. ICMR is continuously ramping up the testing facilities in the country. At present, a total of one thousand 284 laboratories across India are conducting the tests for COVID-19 including 895 government laboratories and 389 private laboratories’ chains.
