DATA STORY: With 54,157 new cured cases, India's Covid recovery rate reaches 92.32%

India on Thursday conducted 1,209,425 coronavirus tests, taking the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 115,429,095. The test positivity rate recorded on Sunday was 3.9%

In yet another day of net reduction in active coronavirus cases, India on Friday reported a decline of 7,189 to 520,773, the lowest level since July 29 and 49 per cent lower than the September 18 peak of 1,017,754. Overall, India added 47,638 confirmed cases in a day, the most in 12 days, to take the tally to 8,411,724.
 
While 54,157 new cured cases in a day pushed the country’s recovered cases to 7,765,966, or 92.32 per cent of all confirmed cases so far, with 670 fatalities reported on Thursday, India’s Covid-19 death toll reached 124985 (1.49 per cent