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65,002 new cases take India’s COVID-19 tally to 25.26 lakh

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A spike of 65,002 cases took India’s COVID-19 tally past 25 lakh on Saturday just a day after it reached the 24-lakh mark, while 18 lakh people have so far recuperated from the disease pushing the recovery rate to 71.61 per cent, Union health ministry data showed.

IMAGE: A man who has recovered from coronavirus donates plasma during a camp organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party at GMCH Auditorium in Guwahati. Photograph: ANI Photo

India has been reporting over 60,000 cases daily since August 7, barring August 11 when the country registered 53,601 new instances of the infection.

 

The COVID-19 caseload stood at 25,26,192, while the death-toll climbed to 49,036 with 996 people succumbing to the disease in 24 hours, the data updated on Saturday 8 am showed.

Case fatality rate has declined to 1.94 per cent.

IMAGE: Health worker wearing PPE kit collects a nasal sample from a man for Covid-19 test, in New Delhi. Photograph: ANI Photo

There are 6,68,220,active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which is 26.45 per cent of the total caseload, while the number of recoveries has risen to 18,08,936.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, in total 2,85,63,095 samples have been tested up to August 14 of which 8,68,679 were examined on Friday, the highest in a day so far.

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