Covid-19: Record 1-day spike of nearly 46k cases took the tally to above 12-lakh mark

Rozana Spokesman

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With the highest-ever single-day spike of 45,720 cases, India's Covid-19 tally crossed the 12-lakh mark on Thursday

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New Delhi: With the highest-ever single-day spike of 45,720 cases, India's Covid-19 tally crossed the 12-lakh mark on Thursday, while the death-toll mounted to 29,861 with a record 1,129 fatalities in a day.  

The country crossed the 12-lakh mark just three days after it crossed the 11-lakh milestone.

There are 4,26,167 active cases of coronavirus infection presently in the country.

Thus, around 63.18 per cent people have recovered so far.

Telangana and Jharkhand have reported nine fatalities each followed by Haryana with eight deaths, Assam, Punjab and Rajasthan six each, Odisha five, Goa and Uttarakhand two each while Kerala, Puducherry, Tripura and Chandigarh have registered one fatality each.