The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday said that the total number of COVID-19 recoveries has crossed 2 million highlighting that the highest-ever single day recoveries have been reported in the last 24 hours with 60,091 cases.

The health ministry said that with this high number of COVID-19 patients recovering and being discharged from the hospitals and home isolation (in case of mild and moderate cases), the recovery rate has scaled the twin peak of crossing 73%. This has also led to the declining Case Fatality Rate, which stands at a new low of 1.91% on Wednesday, the health ministry said.

According to the Ministry, the record high recoveries have ensured that the actual caseload of the country viz. the active cases have reduced and currently comprise less than 1/4th (only 24.45%) of the total positive cases. A higher number of recoveries and declining fatality has shown that India's graded strategy has worked. India has posted 13,61,356 more recoveries than the active cases (6,76,514).