Even though 4,213 Covid-19 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours in the country, the recovery rate of patients has improved to 31.15 per cent in the same period, with a total 1,559 individuals getting cured.

Addressing the daily press conference in New Delhi today Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said: "Total number of cases in India is 67,152 so far, of which 44,029 people are under medical supervision and total 20,917 people have been cured from the disease."

It was the highest spike in the coronavirus cases reported in a single day, along with 97 fatalities.

On the question of community transmission, Agarwal said: "We have found [a] few clusters and have noticed relatively large outbreak in a few places. Even Director, AIIMS, said that if we do not contain the zones properly, the rate of transmission will become higher. Therefore, it is important for us to maintain at this stage only and scale up containment efforts and ensure that we don't go at the community transmission stage."

(with agency inputs).