Covid-19 recovery rate reaches 48.27 per cent in India

The Central Government yesterday said that the recovery rate reached to 48.27 per cent in the country and the total number of recovered people from corona virus reached to one lakh nine thousand 462. During the last 24 hour, five thousand 355 people have been cured.

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry said, nine thousand 851 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the last 24 hour taking the total number of cases to two lakh 26 thousand 770 in the country. This is the highest spike in new cases in one day since the outbreak of the corona pandemic in India. During the last 24 hour, 273 deaths have been registered taking the nationwide toll to six



thousand 348. The fatality rate is 2.80 per cent.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that a total of one lakh 43 thousand 661 samples of corona virus were tested in the last 24 hours. With this, the figure of total number of tests reached 43 lakh 86 thousand 379 in the country.

ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for Covid-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories. As of now, total 724 laboratories across India have been given approval to conduct the test for Covid-19 including 507 government laboratories and 217 private laboratory chains.