66,550 COVID-19 patients have recovered and been discharged in the last 24 hours with the total number of recoveries crossing 24 lakh (24,04,585). In the last 24 hours, the number of active cases came down by 6,400. With this, India's recovery rate amongst the COVID-19 patients has reached 76% (75.92%). The active cases of the country currently comprise only 22.24% of the total positive cases. To a question on the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, he said as far as Sputnik-5 vaccine (COVID-19 vaccine developed in Russia) is concerned, India and Russia are in communication.

Source: dna August 25, 2020 15:00 UTC