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DATA STORY: 82% of all Covid cases in India have recovered, 1.6% patients have died

India on Wednesday conducted 1,156,569 coronavirus tests and had a test positivity rate of 7.5%

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Relief for India on the coronavirus front continued for a sixth straight day on Thursday, with the count of active cases reducing by 1,995. The number has declined on a net basis for six days in a row, reducing cumulatively by 51,372 from the 1,017,754 peak seen on September 18 to 966,382 now. A jump of 87,374 in the number of cured cases, meanwhile, pushed recoveries in the country to 4,674,987, or 81.55 per cent all infections reported so far.
 
While a single-day increase of 86,508 in total cases took India’s overall tally to 5,732,518, its death toll reached

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