TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ India’s COVID-19 tally raced past the seven-lakh mark on Tuesday after a single-day spike of 22,252 infections, five days after crossing the six-lakh post, while the death toll breached the 20,000 mark, according to the Union health ministry data.
It took 110 days for coronavirus infections in the country to reach the one-lakh, while just 49 days more to go past the seven-lakh mark. This is the fifth consecutive day that COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 20,000.
The country’s coronavirus infection caseload increased to 7,19,665 on Tuesday, while the death toll climbed to 20,160 with 467 persons succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The number of recoveries stands at 4,39,947, while there are 2,59,557 active cases of coronavirus infection presently in the country. “Thus, around 61.13 per cent of patients have recovered so far,” an official said. The total number of confirmed cases included foreigners.
