new delhi the recovery rate of coronavirus in the country touched a record high of more than 70000 patients being discharged in a single day said union ministry of health and family welfare on sundaythe highest ever singleday recoveries of 70072 were recorded on september 5 and currently the recovery rate now is 7723 per cent this has also led to the declining case fatality rate cfr which stands at a new low of 173 per cent ministry said in a statementaccording to a graph of the ministry there were 68584 recoveries on september 3 65081 on september 1 and 57469 on august 24there has been a steep exponential rise in covid19 recoveries from 50000 in may to over 30 lakh in september the total number of recoveries have crossed 31 lakh and it stands at 3107223 the ministry statedfive states have contributed to 60 per cent of the total recoveries maharashtra has contributed the maximum recoveries amounting to almost 21 per cent followed by tamil nadu with 1263 per cent andhra pradesh with 1191 per cent karnataka with 882 per cent and uttar pradesh with 614 per cent it addedthe health ministry further said that india has posted more than 226 lakh recoveries than the active cases which stand at 846395the active cases currently comprise only 2104 per cent of the total positive cases more than 75 per cent of the total cases have recovered it saidindia registered the highest singleday jump of 86432 new coronavirus cases taking the national caseload past 40lakh mark on saturday according to the ministry of health and family welfarewith 1089 more deaths the cumulative toll reached 69561the total case tally stands at 4023179 including 846395 active cases 3107223 cureddischargedmigrated cases