<span style="color: black;">Government today said that the gap between recovered patients and active COVID-19 cases has further increased to over 3,04,000.</span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;">The total number of recovered cases has reached to 6,77,422.</span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;">Union Health Ministry said, effective clinical management of the moderate and severe cases through a well executed Standard of Care protocol has ensured high rate of recovery among the COVID patients.</span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;">It said, proactive measures of Central and State and Union Territories governments of aggressive testing and timely diagnosis has helped in detecting cases early.</span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;">The last 24 hours saw a sharp increase of 23,672 COVID patients recovering.</span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;">The recovery rate has reached to 62.86 per cent. </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;">Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 3,73,379.</span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;">The Ministry said, the country's testing infrastructure has been substantially ramped up.</span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;">The testing strategy prescribed by ICMR allows all registered medical practitioners to recommend testing.</span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;">During the last 24 hours 3,58,127 samples have been tested.</span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;">With total of over one crore 37 lakh samples tested, the testing per million for India has reached over 9,994. </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: black;">A total of 1,262 laboratories across India are conducting tests for Covid-19 including 889 government laboratories and 373 private laboratories' chains.</span><br />''