As India entered the 30th day of the nationwide lockdown, the Centre said the country has achieved a lot in its fight against novel coronavirus.

A member of one of the 12 Covid Empowered Groups set up by the Centre, CK Mishra told media on Thursday that India has done three key things in the last 30 days.

"All thanks to people of India, we have been able to cut transmission, minimise spread and increase the doubling time for Covid-19 cases," CK Mishra said.

"Second, we have ramped up testing and third, prepare for the future if the virus spread further," he said.

CK Mishra said that the country has been able to consistently ramp up our testing. "We’ve taken several measures to ensure we remain more or less stable in the last 30 days," he said.

The top bureaucrat said that India has reached half a million Covid-19 tests. Even as he said that the number of tests India has conducted is 33 times since March 23, there has also been a spike in the number of positive cases.

"On March 23, we had done 14,915 tests across the country and on April 22, we have done more than 5 lakh tests. If a rough calculation is done it is about 33 times in 30 days. This is not enough and we need to ramp testing in this country," CK Mishra, Environment Secretary and Chairman of the Empowered Group-2 said.

Lav Aggarwal, senior health ministry official, said that in last 24 hours, 1409 positive cases have been reported, which takes our total confirmed cases to 21,393.

Health ministry joint secretary said that India has 12 districts that did not have a fresh case in the last 28 days or more. There are now 78 districts (23 States/UT) that have not reported any fresh cases during the last 14 days.

He also highlighted that India has 4257 people who have recovered from the disease. In the last 24 hours, 388 have been cured of the disease.

"India's recovery rate is around 19.89 per cent," he said.