India's Covid-19 recovery rate nears 74%; record 9.18 lakh tests done in a day

Recoveries among Covid-19 patients in the country surged to 20,96,664 on Thursday, pushing the recovery rate to 73.91 per cent, while only 0.28 per cent people of 6,86,395 active cases are on ventilator support, the Union health ministry said.The ministry also said with a record 9,18,470 tests been being done in a day, the cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of Covid-19 in India have reached 3.26 crore.