Covid update- India on Friday registered record single-day spike of 77,266 fresh Coronavirus cases. Now total tally rose to 33.87 lakh. 1,057 COVID-related deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. The total fatalities of Coronavirus now stands at 61,529.
Health Ministry said in a statement, “COVID-19 case tally in the country stands at 33,87,501 including 7,42,023 active cases, 25,83,948 cured/discharged/migrated & 61,529 deaths,”.
The recovery rate has been recorded at 76.28 per cent, while the COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.82 per cent.
“In the past 5 months, more than 3/4 of cases have recovered and less than 1/4 are active now. Effective implementation of the Centre`s strategic and graded TEST-TRACK-TREAT approach has led to higher recoveries and lower fatality,” MOHFW tweeted.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research , 9,01,338 samples were tested on Thursday and over 3.94 crore samples have been tested so far.
Meanwhile, the overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 24.3 million, while the deaths have increased to over 829,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
