<span style="color: #222222;">Union Government today said that the recovery rate reached to 48.31 per cent in the country and the number of recovered people from Corona virus crossed the one lakh mark.<br />'' <br />'' During the last 24 hour, 4,776 people have recovered and the total number of cured reached to one lakh 303.<br />'' <br />'' Health and Family Welfare Ministry said 8,909 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the last 24 hour taking the total number of cases to 2,07,615 in the country.<br />'' <br />'' This is the highest spike in new cases in one day since the outbreak of Corona pandemic in India.<br />'' <br />'' During the last 24 hours, 217 deaths have been reported taking the nationwide toll to five thousand 815. The fatality rate is 2.80 per cent in India.<br />'' <br />'' The Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that a total 1,37,158 samples of Corona virus were tested in the last 24 hours.<br />'' <br />'' With this, figure of total number of tests reached to 41,03,233 in the country.<br />'' <br />'' ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for COVID-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories.<br />'' <br />'' As of now, total 688 laboratories across India have been given approval to conduct the test for COVID-19 including 480 government laboratories and 208 private laboratories' chains.<br />'' <br />'' Health Ministry said that 952 dedicated COVID hospitals with 1, 66,332 isolation beds, 21,393 ICU beds and 72,762 oxygen supported beds are available in the country.<br />'' <br />'' The Centre has also provided 1.25 crore N-95 masks and more than one crore Personal Protective Equipment, PPEs to the States and Union Territories.</span><br />''