DATA STORY: With over 700,000 cured cases, India's Covid recovery rate nears 90%

India on Friday conducted 1,269,479 coronavirus tests, taking the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 101,382,564. The test positivity rate recorded on Thursday was 4.2%

A day after its count of active coronavirus cases fell below the 700,000 mark, India on Saturday reported that its cured cases exceeded the 700,000 mark. At 7,016,046, the number of cases that have recovered so far is 89.78 per cent of all infections recorded in the country. India’s active cases, meanwhile, dropped further with another net decline of 14,829 on Saturday. Of the total confirmed cases in the country, 680,680, or 8.71 per cent are still active.
 
Total cases added on Saturday stood at 53,370. These took the country’s total tally to 7,814,682. And, with 650 Covid-19 fatalities,