Union Health Ministry today said that successful implementation of containment strategy, aggressive testing coupled with standardized clinical management of critical patients have resulted in the rise of COVID-19 recovery rate to nearly 70 per cent while the case fatality rate has fallen below 2 per cent.<br />'' <br />''The Ministry said with more patients recuperating and being discharged from hospitals and home isolation, the total recoveries have jumped to 15,83,489 with 47,746 patients getting discharged in a span of 24 hours.<br />'' <br />''The national recovery rate has risen to 69.80 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry.<br />'' <br />''The actual case load of the active cases (6,39,929) which is only 28.21 per cent of the total positive cases.<br />'' <br />''With a consistent and sustained increase in recoveries, the gap between recovered patients and active COVID-19 cases has reached nearly 9.5 lakh and the gap between percentage of recoveries and percentage of active cases of COVID-19 is growing every day.<br />'' <br />''Focus on improved and effective clinical treatment in hospitals, use of non-invasive, improved and coordinated services of the ambulances for ferrying patients for prompt and timely treatment have resulted in seamless efficient patient management of COVID-19 patients.<br />'' <br />''As a result, the case fatality rate (CFR), which  has been low as compared to the global average, has fallen below 2 per cent  and currently stands at 1.99 per cent.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 22,68,675 with 53,601 new infections being reported in a day, while the death-toll climbed to 45,257 with 871 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours.</span>