TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ With the highest 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, according to the Union health ministry data. The country crossed the 12-lakh mark, just three days after it went past the 11-lakh milestone.
The coronavirus caseload in the country surged to 12,38,635 on Thursday, while 7,82,606 people have recovered so far in the country, the data updated at 8 am showed. There are 4,26,167 active cases of coronavirus infection presently in the country.
Around 63.18 per cent people have recovered so far. Maharashtra (10,576), Tamil Nadu (5,849), Karnataka (4,764), Uttar Pradesh (2,300), West Bengal (2,291), Telangana (1,554), Bihar (1,417), Assam (1,390), Delhi (1,227), Odisha (1,078), Kerala (1,038) and Gujarat (1,020) contributed to around 75 per cent of the total single-day spike of 45,720.