Covid cases on decline, recovery rate above 90%: Health Ministry

 India's Covid-19 recovery rate has gone up to 90.80 per cent while the active caseload is on downswing, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. The country currently has a total of 22,28,724 active cases.

In a positive turn of events, the daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for the 16th consecutive days, the ministry added.

As many as 1,10,811 more recoveries were registered during the last 24 hours as compared to the daily new cases, the data updates by the ministry showed.

Since the onset of the pandemic, the country has reported 2,51,78,011 recoveries, with 2,84,601 patients recovering in the preceding 24-hour. "This constitutes an overall recovery rate of 90.80 per cent," the ministry stated.

India's active caseload has reduced to 22,28,724 on Friday -- a new landmark since the last peak on May 10 this year.

"A net decline of 1,14,428 is witnessed in the last 24 hours and active cases are now only 8.04 per cent of the country's total positive cases," said the Ministry.

Meanwhile, a total of 20,80,048 Covid tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in the country and cumulatively India has conducted 34.11 crore tests so far.

"While on one side testing as been enhanced across the country, a continued decline in weekly case positivity is noticed", said the Ministry, adding "weekly positivity rate is currently at 9.84 per cent while the daily positivity rate has reduced and was at 8.36 per cent till Friday".

"It has remained less than 10 per cent for five consecutive days now."