<span style="color: black;">Total recoveries from COVID-19 in the country today inched closer to touch the one million mark.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">A total of nine lakh 88 thousand 29 people have recovered in the country so far and 35 thousand 286 recoveries were reported during the last 24 hours.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">With this, the recovery rate improved to 64.51 per cent in the country. The case fatality rate has declined to 2.23 per cent.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">The Health Ministry said, 48 thousand 513 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in the country in one day taking the total number of cases to 15 lakh 31 thousand 669.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">Presently, the total number of active cases in the country is five lakh nine thousand 447. In a single day, 768 deaths were reported taking the toll to 34 thousand 193.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research said that a record four lakh eight thousand 855 tests were conducted by various laboratories in the last 24 hours.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">So far, one crore 77 lakh 43 thousand 740 tests have been conducted.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">AIR correspondent reports that Delhi stands at top position with 88.83 per cent recovery rate.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">Ladakh, Haryana, Assam and Telangana are other top performing States and Union Territories wherein the recovery rate is above 73 per cent.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">Nearly, 16 States and Union Territories have better recovery rates than the national average of 64.51 per cent.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">Maximum number of people have recovered in Maharashtra followed by Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">In terms of fatality rate, there are 29 States and Union Territories which have lower fatality rates than the national average.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: black;">In the total active cases, around 70 per cent caseloads are from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.</span><br />''