At least, 75 per cent of new cases of coronavirus in the country are concentrated in 10 States and Union Territories (UTs). But then, there is 74 per cent of new recoveries as well.
A senior health official said if there were 86,052 new cases in the past 24 hours in Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and a few others, then the number of recoveries stood at 81,177.
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Kerala, Delhi are some of the states that continue to be worst-hit from the pandemic.
On Friday, the country registered 86,052 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, as India moves towards the 60-lakh mark. The active cases have climbed to 9,70,116 whereas over 4.75 million have recovered so far, said a statement from the Union Health Ministry.
For the past six days, the numbers of recoveries logged per day in the country have been exceeding the number of fresh cases. But in the last 24 hours, the number of recoveries stood at 81,177, said the Ministry.
It also pointed out that a minimum of 14 States demonstrated better Covid-19 response on the basis of higher tests per million population and corresponding lower positivity rate than the national average.
A total of 68,928,440 samples have been tested for Covid-19 so far out of which nearly 1.5 million samples were tested on Thursday, as per data released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).