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India’s COVID-19 tally raced past the 38-lakh mark on Thursday with the sharpest single-day spike of 83,883 fresh cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 29,70,492, pushing the recovery rate to over 77 per cent, Union health ministry data showed.
The total number of coronavirus cases in the country mounted to 38,53,406, while the death toll climbed to 67,376 as 1,043 people succumbed to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The national COVID-19 recovery rate has risen to 77.09 per cent and the case fatality rate due to the infection has further declined to 1.75 per cent.
India registers more than 60 thousand recoveries each day, 6th day in a row.
Since May 2020, there has been a 58 times hike in the number of recovered patients. pic.twitter.com/Nv4ZUZpRSy
— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) September 2, 2020
There are 8,15,538 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprise 21.16 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
◾ 37,69,523 total confirmed cases
◾ 29,01,908 cases cured/recovered
◾ 4,43,37,201 samples testedHere’s the State-wise distribution of #COVID19 cases in the country (as on 2nd September 2020)#IndiaFightsCorona pic.twitter.com/vulivXCGXj
— PIB India (@PIB_India) September 2, 2020
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 and went past 30 lakh on August 23.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, a cumulative total of 4,55,09,380 samples have been tested up to September 2 with 11,72,179 samples being tested on Wednesday — the highest in a day so far.
