COVID-19: India's single-day recoveries exceed fresh cases as record 95,880 recuperate

Saturday, 19 September 2020Newsdesk

India's single-day recovery outstripped the number of new infections as nearly 96,000 people recuperated from the novel coronavirus, even as the total caseload went past 53 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The figures released at 8 am showed that while 95,880 people recovered from COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, 93,337 new infections were recorded during the period.

New Delhi, 19 September 2020

As per news report of PTI, with the latest inclusions, the total number of cases mounted to 53,08,014 and the recoveries to 42,08,431, pushing the recovery rate to 79.28 per cent. The death toll, meanwhile, climbed to 85,619 with the virus claiming 1,247 lives in a span of 24 hours, the updated data showed. The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further dropped at 1.61 per cent, the data showed.

Source -PTI