<span style="color: #222222;">As part of Centre's coordinated strategy for effective containment and management of the COVID-19 pandemic, a high- level review meeting was chaired by Cabinet Secretary today. Member (Health) in NITI Aayog, Union Health Secretary, Secretary, Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, senior officials of the Health and Home Affairs Ministry along with Chief Secretaries of the 12 States and UTs participated in the review meeting. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The 12 States and UTs that participated in the video conferencing include Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Chandigarh, Telangana, Kerala, Delhi, Punjab and West Bengal. About 80 per cent of the COVID caseload in the country is concentrated in these States and UTs.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal also addressed the States and reviewed the oxygen availability in these States. He specifically requested them to focus on analysing district level and health facility level status and effectively plan and manage logistical issues related with oxygen availability.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' The Cabinet Secretary urged the States to analyse mortalities, district and hospital wise for identification of critical areas of intervention. He also exhorted the States to ensure optimal utilization of RT-PCR capacity. He stressed on ensuring that every symptomatic negative case tested by Rapid Antigen Tests should mandatorily be administered RT-PCR test.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Union Health Secretary presented a detailed status note of COVID-19 on all these States. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile, the country today registered the highest single day recoveries of 95,880 COVID patients. The Health Ministry said with this, the recovery rate of COVID-19 has further improved to 79.28 per cent. Total number of recoveries has reached over 42 lakh. India's COVID-19 tally has crossed 53 lakh with 93,337 new infections being reported in a day.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The actual caseload of the country is now reduced and comprises only 19.10 per cent of the total positive cases. The total number of active cases now stands at 10,13,000. In the last 24 hours, 1,247 deaths have been reported, taking the toll to 85,619. </span><br />''