New Delhi: India on Saturday recorded a fresh spike of 44,684 nCoV cases in the past 24 hours taking the country’s tally to 87,73 ,479, the Health Ministry update said here.
Death toll due to the pandemic has now mounted to 1,29,188 after 520 more lives were claimed by the virus spread in the past one day.
Active cases have further witnessed a dip by 3,828 in the same duration and currently the nation has an active case load of 4,80,719, the government data update said here.
Talking of recoveries, there were 47, 992 patients cured/discharged since Friday pushing the total count of COVID survivors to 81,63,572 till date.
In percentage, the active case are now 5.48 per cent, cured 93.05 per cent and the deaths due to pandemic are at 1.47 per cent, as per the government data.
According to the Indian Council for Medical Research, so far there have been 12,40,31,230 COVID tests done in total across the nation since the beginning.
The National Capital has been clocking more than 7 k cases a day since a couple of days, reeling under the third wave of the virus.
