With 10,386 patients having recovered from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the total number of recovered patients has gone up to 2,04,710 and the recovery rate has increased to 53.79 per cent from 52.96 per cent on Thursday.
The Health Ministry said in a release that the trend in daily numbers shows an increasing rate of recovery and an increasing gap between active and recovered cases.
The increase in the proportion of recovered cases is a demonstration of India's strategy of timely management of Covid-19, it said.
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