After over 3 months, less than 40k COVID cases reported in single day across country

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ The number of coronavirus cases reported in India in a span of 24 hours dropped below 40,000 after over three months, while the new fatalities registered during the same period remained under 500, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.

India’s COVID-19 caseload mounted to 79,46,429 with 36,470 new infections being reported in a day, while the death toll due to the disease climbed to 1,19,502 with 488 new fatalities being recorded, the data updated at 8 am showed. A total of 72,01,070 people have recuperated from COVID-19 so far, pushing the national recovery rate to 90.62 per cent while the case.

Fatality rate stands at 1.50 per cent. The number of active cases of coronavirus infection has remained below 7 lakh for five days in a row.  There are 6,25,857 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country as on date which comprises 7.88 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.