Chennai: India has sustained the steady trend of active cases being lower than the 10 lakh mark for 11 days in an unbroken chain, said the Union Health Ministry today. The number of active cases today is 9,42,217.

‘With a very high number of Covid patients recovering every single day, India’s steady trend of posting high level of daily recoveries also continues.78,877 recoveries have been registered in the last 24 hours in the country.

This has resulted in continuous increase in the national recovery rate, which is currently pegged at 83.70 per cent,’ it said.

India’s total recoveries are 53,52,078 today, the Ministry said and added that the last 10 lakh recoveries were added in just 12 days.

With this, India continues to maintain its global position of being the country with maximum number of recovered Covid patients in the world. ‘76.62 per cent of the active cases are in 10 States/UTs,’ it said.