India registers 3,32,730 new COVID-19 cases and 2,263 fatalities in last 24 hours, highest single-day spike ever

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India registers 3,32,730 new COVID-19 cases and 2,263 fatalities in last 24 hours, highest single-day spike ever
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India reported 3,32,730 fresh COVID-19 cases and 2,263 deaths in the last 24 hours, the highest single day spike since the beginning of this pandemic last year, pushing the overall tally to 1,62,63,695 and death toll to 1,86,920, on Friday, according to the data by Union Health Ministry.
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Registering a steady increase, the active cases increased to 24,28,616 comprising 14.93 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has further dropped to 83. 92 per cent.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,36, 48,159, while the case fatality rate has further dropped to 1.15 per cent, the data stated.

India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.India crossed the grim milestone of 1.50 crore on April 19.

According to the ICMR, 27,44,45,653 samples have been tested up to April 22 with 17,40,550 samples being tested on Thursday.

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