DATA STORY: Covid recovery rates of 22 states better than national average; Andhra's at 98.82%

India on Thursday conducted 1,062,420 coronavirus tests, taking the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 173,111,694. The test positivity rate recorded was 1.9%

India on Friday reported a net reduction of 3402 to bring its count of active coronavirus cases down to 254,254, the lowest since July 6 and 75 per cent lower than the September 18 peak of 1,017,754. With a continuous trend of daily reductions, India’s share of global active coronavirus cases is down at 1.12 per cent (one in 89). The country added 20,035 cases to take its total caseload to 10,286,709. And, with 256 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 148,994, or 1.45 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India