New Delhi: India crossed the 16-lakh mark Coronavirus cases with new single-day high cases touchingĀ 55,078.
According to Union Health Ministry data released this morning, the country’s total covid-19 tally has reached to 16,38,870. The death toll increased to 35,747 with 779 fatalities being reported in the last 24 hours.
The number of recoveries rose to 10,57,805 and there are 5,45,318 active COVID-19 cases in the country. The recovery rate rose to 64.54 per cent while the fatality rate dropped further to 2.18 per cent.
This is the second consecutive day that COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 50,000. The total number of confirmed cases also includes foreigners.
According to the ICMR, a cumulative 1,88,32,970 samples have been tested up to 30 July with 6,42,588 being tested on Thursday.
Of the 779 deaths reported on Friday, 266 are from Maharashtra, 97 fromĀ Ā Tamilnadu, 83 from Karnataka, 68 from Andhra Pradesh and 57 from Uttar Pradesh.Ā West Bengal registered 46 deaths, Delhi 29, Gujarat 22, Jammu and Kashmir 17, Madhya Pradesh 14 and Rajasthan and Telangana 13 each.
Ten fatalities have been reported from Odisha, nine from Punjab, five from Jharkhand, four each from Bihar, Haryana, Manipur and Uttarakhand, three each from Goa and Chhattisgarh, two each from Assam, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Kerala while Ladakh and Puducherry recorded one fatality each.