New Delhi: India continues to scale up its fight against the novel Coronavirus by increasing testing capacity on daily basis while improving upon the recovery of patients with good medical care.

The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients has further improved and now it has reached 76.47%. In the last 24 hours, 65,50,050 patients have recovered and were discharged from the hospitals. The Health Ministry said, the total number of recoveries has reached over 26,48,998.

It said, the constantly increasing recoveries have ensured that the actual caseload of the country has reduced and currently comprises only 21.72 per cent of the total positive cases. It said, effective implementation of Centre’s strategic and graded ‘Test,Track and Treat’ approach has led to higher recoveries and lower fatality. Currently, India’s Case Fatality Rate is at 1.81 per cent.

The total number of positive cases of COVID-19 infection in the country is 34.64 lakh. Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 7.52 lakh. In the last 24 hours, 1021 deaths have also been reported taking the toll to 62,550.

9 lakh Covid tests in 24 hrs, for 2 consecutive days

Significantly ramping up its testing capacity, India is now testing close to about 10 lakh tests/day. For last two days, more than 9 lakh COVID-19 samples each day were tested, keeping a sharp focus on “Test, Track and Treat” strategy of the Union Government, Health Ministry said on Friday.

India has already created a capacity of doing 10 lakh tests per day and 9,01,338 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, the ministry said in a release.