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India's COVID-19 positive cases tally inches towards 60000 mark

| @indiablooms | May 09, 2020, at 09:42 am

New Delhi/UNI/IBNS:  With 3320 more people testing positive in past 24 hours, the total number of novel coronavirus cases in India touched 59,662 on Saturday, as per government data released.

Nine-five people succumbed to the fatal virus in the same period.

According to Health Ministry data, the country has now 39,834 active cases, 1918 more than of Friday's data.

So far, 1,981 people have lost their lives to the pandemic across the nation, as per government data.

The total number of recoveries have now improved to 17846.  

 

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