New Delhi: India recorded 62,480 fresh infections of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the overall cases to 2,97,62,793, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.
Besides, the country also saw 1,587 deaths, the lowest since April 18 this year, pushing the total number of fatalities to 3,83,490. The death toll stands at 1.29 per cent. On April 18, the country saw 1,501 COVID-related deaths.
A total of 88,977 patients recuperated during the past 24 hours, pushing the number of recoveries to 2,85,80,647. With these new recoveries, recovery rate jumped from 95.93 per cent to 96.03 per cent.
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Now, active caseload further declined to 7,98,656, less than eight lakh after 73 days, shows the data.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 38,7167,696 tests have been conducted, of which 19,29,476 were carried out in the past 24 hours.
