India has leaped across a significant milestone in its fight against COVID-19. The active caseload of the country has fallen below seven lakh for the first time after nearly two months.<br />'' <br />'' The total positive cases in the country today are six lakh 95 thousand 509 which comprise merely 8.96 per cent of the total reported cases.<br />'' <br />'' The total recovered cases are nearly 70  lakh and the difference between active cases and recovered cases is also consistently widening. The recovered cases are nearly 10 times more than the active cases.<br />'' <br />'' Nearly 74 thousand patients have recovered and were discharged in the last 24 hours whereas the new confirmed cases reported in the same time span stood at nearly 54 thousand.<br />'' <br />'' The national recovery rate has further progressed to 89.53 per cent. The Health Ministry informed that 690 case fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours.<br />'' <br />'' The country also crossed a new peak of conducting more than ten crore COVID tests till date. During the last 24 hours, more than 14 lakh 42 thousand tests were conducted.<br />''