<span style="color: #222222;">India has achieved the landmark of over 60 lakh recoveries from COVID-19 infection.<br />''<br />''The Health Ministry said that this has also sustained India's leading position globally as the country with maximum recovered cases.<br />''<br />''The top five States, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, with maximum caseload are also contributing more than half of the total recoveries.<br />''The Ministry said that the country's COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 86.17 per cent.<br />''<br />''More than 89 thousand people have recovered from COVID-19 during the last 24 hours.<br />''<br />''The total number of recoveries has reached over 60.77 lakh.<br />''<br />''Presently, the total number of active cases in the country is 8.67 lakh.<br />''<br />''Currently, India's Case Fatality Rate is at 1.54 per cent, which is one of the lowest globally.<br />''<br />''In the last 24 hours, 74,383 new cases have been reported in the country taking the total number of positive cases to over 70 lakh.<br />''<br />''918 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours taking the toll to 1,08,334.<br />''<br />''According to Indian Council of Medical Research, more than 10.78 lakh  tests were conducted during the last 24 hours.<br />''<br />'' The total number of samples tested so far has reached 8.68 crore.</span>