Covid-19: Nearly 84,000 cases in 24 hour in India; death toll above 67,000

Rozana Spokesman

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India's Covid-19 tally raced past the 38-lakh mark on Thursday with the sharpest single-day spike of 83,883 fresh cases

Covid-19

New Delhi: India's Covid-19 tally raced past the 38-lakh mark on Thursday with the sharpest single-day spike of 83,883 fresh cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 29,70,492, pushing the recovery rate to over 77 per cent.

The national Covid-19 recovery rate has risen to 77.09 per cent and the case fatality rate due to the infection has further declined to 1.75 per cent.

There are 8,15,538 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprise 21.16 per cent of the total caseload.

India's Covid-19 tally had crossed the 30-lakh mark on August 23.