NEW DELHI, Oct 10 (NNN-PTI) — India reported 73,272 new coronavirus cases, taking the overall caseload to 6,979,423, while 5,988,822 people have recuperated so far, pushing the recovery rate to 85.81 percent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Saturday.
The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 107,416 with 926 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.
For the second day in a row, the number of active COVID-19 cases remained below 9 lakh.
There are 8,83,185 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which make 12.65 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
The COVID-19 case fatality rate was recorded at 1.54 per cent.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on Aug 7, 30 lakh on Aug 23 and 40 lakh on Sept 5. It went past 50 lakh on Sept 16 and crossed 60 lakh on Sept 28.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative 8,57,98,698 samples have been tested up to Oct 9. As many as 1,164,018 samples were tested on Friday.
