National COVID recovery rate improves to 86.74%

Amid the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, India is witnessing a declining trend in the active number of Corona virus cases.With this, the recovery rate is continuously improving in the country.

However, some States and Union Territories are still registering a spike in the fresh cases.

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Thursday said, the active cases comprise 12.14 per cent of the cumulative positive cases. It said, there are over 31.29 lakh active cases in the country at present.

As the country is registering over three lakh recoveries daily from the past many days, the recovery rate has further improved to 86.74 per cent.

The Health Ministry said, over 3. 69 lakh patients have recovered from this infectious disease within 24 hours.So far, over 2.23 crore patients have already recovered from this disease.

The country has registered over 2.76 lakh new COVID cases during the last 24 hours. The Health Ministry said, a total of 3, 874 deaths were reported in the country within last 24 hours, taking the toll to over 2.87lakh across the country.

Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research has informed that over 20.55 lakh COVID tests were conducted in the previous day.

So far, over 32.23 crore tests have been conducted in the country.