coronavirus currently in the country. The gap between recovered patients and active cases stands at 1,64,268.During the last 24 hours, 2.48 lakh samples were tested for Covid-19, pushing the cumulative number of tests to about 98 lakh."The efforts to expand the testing labs network in the country have led to their numbers increasing very day.
There are as many as 1087 labs in the country, including 780 labs in the government sector and 307 private labs," the government said in a statement.This is the third consecutive day when coronavirus cases have increased by more than 20,000.Among the states, Maharashtra has accounted for over 2 lakh cases and 8,671 deaths so far.