Covid-19: Tally above 6 lakh after over 19,000 cases in 24 hours in India

New Delhi: India's Covid-19 tally zoomed past six lakh cases on Thursday with a single-day increase of 19,148 cases, just five days after it crossed the five-lakh mark, while the death toll rose to 17,834, according to the Union health ministry data.

The Covid-19 cases increased to 6,04,641 while 434 people have succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours.

Now, the number of recoveries stands at 3,59,859 while one patient has migrated. There are 2,26,947 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country.

"Thus, around 59.52 per cent of patients have recovered so far," an official said.

Adding on, seven each from Telangana and Karnataka, six from Andhra Pradesh, five from Punjab, four each from Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, three from Bihar and one each from Chhattisgarh and Goa.