<span style="color: #222222;">Madhya Pradesh has the lowest growth rate of COVID-19 infection in the country at 1.43 percent while the recovery rate was over 76 per cent.<br />''<br />''The state has reported 12,078 COVID-19 cases so far and 521 people have died of the infection.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports that 9,215 have recovered from Covid19.<br />''<br />''The average growth rate of the infection in the country was 3.63 per cent. Three districts in the state, namely Datia, Alirajpur and Umaria, have no active cases.<br />''<br />''The state's testing capacity, with 24 laboratories, was now 6,000 samples per day.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh has received the first prize of e-Panchayat Award-2020 for ensuring better efficiency and accountability in work by making better use of information and communication technology in panchayats.<br />''<br />''Every year, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj presents e-Panchayat Awards in three categories, in which all the states nominate themselves, for transparently effective responsibility in the use of information technology.</span><br />