In the last 24 hours, India has reported 2,17,353 new COVID-19 cases, the biggest single-day spike ever, taking the overall tally to 14,291,917 cases on Friday, according to the Health Ministry data. This is the second consecutive day that the country has registered over 2 lakh cases. On Thursday, the number was 2,00,739.
‘In the last 24 hours, India has reported 1,185 new COVID-19 fatalities.’
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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