India's COVID-19 tally crosses 29 lakh mark

Friday, 21 August 2020Newsdesk

India's COVID-19 tally zoomed past 29 lakh, a day after it crossed 28 lakh, with a?single-day spike of?68,898 infections, while the recoveries have increased to 21,58,946 on Friday taking the recovery rate to over 74 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

New Delhi, 21 August 2020

The total cases of coronavirus infections mounted to 29,05,823, while the death toll climbed to?54,849 with 983 new fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. Case fatality rate has declined to 1.89 per cent while the recovery rate has risen to 74.30 per cent. There are 6,92,028 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which is 23.82?per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.

Source -PTI