Covid-19 active cases constitute 1.20% of the total cases. Besides, India has achieved its highest recovery rate today at 97.46%, the health ministry said.
A total of 42,295 patients recovered in the last 24 hours. The weekly positivity rate also remained below 5% and is currently at 2.13%.
Further, the daily positivity rate climbed to 2.04%, less than 3% for 19 consecutive days. The testing capacity in the country has been substantially ramped up with 48.94 crore tests conducted so far.
As per the Indian Council of Medical Research, a total of 48,94,70,779 samples were tested up to August 12, of which, 19,70,495 samples were tested yesterday.