A health worker collected swab semple of passengers for COVID-19 test at KSR Railway Station on Wednesday.

India has recorded 913 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 13 deaths due to the infection in the past 24 hours.

According to the Union Health Ministry’s data on Monday, the country saw a total of 1,316 discharges in the last 24 hours – taking the total recovery rate at around 98.76 per cent. This is an amazing turnaround rate and it shows how effective our government’s health initiatives have been so far.

The ministry of health and family welfare in India has released the latest data on COVID-19. The total active cases declined to 12,597 (0.03%) from 18,283 (0.12% in February 2019), the ministry said today. This means that there have been 342 deaths due to COVID-19 so far this year as compared to 521 death tolls reported during 2018 – a decline of 54%. In March 2020, the first death due to COVID was reported in India

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has released a report on COVID-19. According to the study, 79,10,79,706 samples have been tested so far for the virus. Of these specimens, 14,823 were found to be positive for COVID-19.