In the last 24 hours, India has reported 2,17,353 new COVID-19 cases, the biggest single-day spike ever, revealed the Health Ministry data.

This took the overall death toll in the country to 1,74,308.
Meanwhile, the daily active cases tally on Friday rose to 15,69,743.
A total of 1,18,302 patients recovered in the same time span, taking the number of recoveries to 1,25,47,866, with a recovery rate of 88.31 per cent.
The Health Ministry said that a total of 14,73,210 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.
So far, 26,34,76,625 samples have been tested in the country.
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Source-IANS