India COVID19
India records another big spike in daily COVID-19 cases: Over 81000 cases registered in past 24 hours, 469 deaths
New Delhi: India registered 469 new COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours and also added 81,466 new cases during the same period, the Ministry of Health released data revealed on Friday.
This is the biggest one-day jump in the number of cases in the past six months.
The total death toll due to the virus now stands at 163396.
There are 614696 active cases in the country at present.
The worst pandemic-hit state of India-Maharashtra-on Thursday witnessed the biggest spike of 43,183 new COVID-19 cases and 249 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The fresh 'massive' surge in cases has taken the infections tally to 28,56,163, while the death toll soared to 54,898.
On a positive note, as many as 32,641 people have recovered from the deadly virus. Till now, 24,33,368 people have been cured and discharged in the state, since the onset of the pandemic.
The recovery rate which was rising in the previous month has now fallen to 85.20 per cent, owing to the sudden spurt in cases.
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