Covid-19: India's infection cases cross 39 lakh with 80,000 fresh cases
With the addition of over 80,000 fresh Covid-19 cases in 24 hours for the second consecutive day, India's total infection tally zoomed past 39 lakh today, according to Indian Health Ministry data.
A total of 83,341 fresh cases were reported in a span of 24 hours, pushing the total number of Covid-19 cases to 39,36,747 while the death toll due to the disease climbed to 68,472 with 1,096 people succumbing to it in a day, the Ministry's data said.
The number of recoveries crossed the 30 lakh mark, pushing the recovery rate of coronavirus patients in the country to 77.15 per cent. The case fatality rate has further declined to 1.74 per cent in the country.
There are 8,31,124 active coronavirus cases in the country, which account for 21.11 per cent of the total caseload, according to the data.
India is the third worst-hit nation by the pandemic in terms of cases and deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University which has been compiling Covid-19 data from all over the world.
Speaking at a function virtually, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, referring to the steps taken to ramp up facilities for fighting Covid-19 and to increase awareness among the citizens, said all such early measures ensured that India with 1.3 billion people and limited resources has one of the lowest death rates per million in the world.
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