The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare today said more than two crore coronavirus tests have been conducted across the country, including more than 6.6 lakh tests in the last 24 hours. "The recovered cases are now double that of the active cases. The case fatality rate is the lowest since the first lockdown," said Rajesh Bhushan, secretary in the ministry. "This is the first time after the first lockdown that the fatality rate is at the lowest, at 2.10%. The fatality rate has seen a progressive decline and it is continuing, which is a good sign."

He added: "The recovered cases are now double the active cases. Case fatality rate is the lowest since the first lockdown (2.10%)," he said. 24 States/UTs have better tests per million than the national average of 15,119. 28 States/UTs are performing more than 140 tests per day per million population, the maximum of 1,580 in Andhra Pradesh and minimum in Himachal Pradesh.National Average is 479."

According to him, 28 States/UTs have positivity of less than 10%. This includes states like Punjab (3.10%), Rajasthan (3.30%), MP (4.2%), U.P. (4.8%), Haryana (5.40%), Assam (6.10%), West Bengal (9%), Karnataka (9.8%). The country jas a total postivity rate of 8.89%

India has registered 5,86,298 active cases and 12,30,509 recoveries as the case fatality rate has gone down from 3.36% on June 17 to 2.10% on August 4

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare today said more than two crore coronavirus tests have been conducted across the country, including more than 6.6 lakh tests in the last 24 hours. "The recovered cases are now double that of the active cases. The case fatality rate is the lowest since the first lockdown," said Rajesh Bhushan, secretary in the ministry. "This is the first time after the first lockdown that the fatality rate is at the lowest, at 2.10%. The fatality rate has seen a progressive decline and it is continuing, which is a good sign."

He added: "The recovered cases are now double the active cases. Case fatality rate is the lowest since the first lockdown (2.10%)," he said. 24 States/UTs have better tests per million than the national average of 15,119. 28 States/UTs are performing more than 140 tests per day per million population, the maximum of 1,580 in Andhra Pradesh and minimum in Himachal Pradesh.National Average is 479."

According to him, 28 States/UTs have positivity of less than 10%. This includes states like Punjab (3.10%), Rajasthan (3.30%), MP (4.2%), U.P. (4.8%), Haryana (5.40%), Assam (6.10%), West Bengal (9%), Karnataka (9.8%). The country jas a total postivity rate of 8.89%

India has registered 5,86,298 active cases and 12,30,509 recoveries as the case fatality rate has gone down from 3.36% on June 17 to 2.10% on August 4