Six days after it recorded four lakh infections, India's Covid-19 tally raced past five lakh on Saturday with the highest single-day surge

New Delhi: Six days after it recorded four lakh infections, India's Covid-19 tally raced past five lakh on Saturday with the highest single-day surge of 18,552 cases, while the death toll climbed to 15,685, according to Union health ministry data.

Coronavirus The total number of Covid-19 cases goes to 5,08,953, while 384 fresh fatalities were recorded in the last 24 hours.

The number of active cases stands at 1,97,387, while 2,95,880 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, according to the official figures.   

"Thus, around 58.13 per cent patients have recovered so far," an official said.

CoronavirusOf the 384 new deaths reported till Saturday morning, 175 were in Maharashtra, 63 in Delhi, 46 in Tamil Nadu, 19 in Uttar Pradesh, 18 in Gujarat, 13 in Haryana, 12 in Andhra Pradesh and 10 each in West Bengal and Karnataka.

Adding on, seven in Telangana, four in Madhya Pradesh, two in Punjab and one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand.