36,652 New Cases Push India Covid Tally To 96 Lakh; 1.3 Lakh Total Deaths

Saturday, 5 December 2020Newsdesk

With a jump of 36,652 fresh infections across states in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 tally has surged past the 96-lakh mark, government data shows. The country now has 96,08,211 total cases of Covid, of which 1,39,700 people have died because of the viral disease; some 512 people lost their lives in the last 24 hours.

New Delhi, 05 December 2020

Total active cases - total cases minus recovered people - continued to fall and were close to 4 lakh. Daily recoveries remained significantly higher than new infections as 42,533 people were discharged. With this, more than 90.58 lakh people have recovered from coronavirus till now. India's average daily case count has been on the decline, slowly but consistently, since the September peak. However, some smaller states have seen a sharp rise in their infection rate with experts attributing it to laxity in mask wearing and social distancing during festivals and elections in the last month.

Source -NDTV