New Delhi: With 45,149 new infections reported in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID tally has crossed the 79 lakh mark.
This marks the country’s lowest single-day spike since July-end. Earlier, on October 20, India had reported 46,790 new COVID cases. This was the first time since July 23 that there were less than 50,000 new cases; 45,720 infections were recorded on the said date.
The number of active cases in the country continue to stay below the seven-lakh mark and are currently at 65,37,17 or 8.50% of the country’s overall caseload. Recoveries, meanwhile, crossed the 7.1 million mark to reach 71,37,228 after 59,105 more people–higher than new infections–recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.
India’s total recoveries constitute 90% of the country’s total cases. Meanwhile, with 480 new fatalities, the death toll due to the virus has reached 119,014 or 1.50% of the total cases.
Kerala yet again reported more new cases than Maharashtra, which continues to report the highest COVID deaths despite a dip in cases. About 55 per cent of these deaths were reported from Maharashtra, West Bengal, Delhi, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Also, in the last 24 hours, a total of 939,039 samples were tested for the disease, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said, adding that with this, 103,462,778 samples have been tested in the country thus far.
India continues to be the second worst-hit country after the United States, with Brazil in third place. However, it also has the highest number of recovered cases in the world.
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