India announces 44,643 new cases, 464 deaths
India saw a single-day rise of 44,643 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 31,856,757, while the active cases registered an increase for the third consecutive day, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.
The death toll climbed to 426,754 with 464 fresh fatalities.
The active cases comprise 1.30 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.36 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.
An increase of 3,083 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
As many as 1,640,287 tests were conducted on Thursday, taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of Covid-19 in the country to 476,533,650.
