India has surpassed the grim milestone of 1 lakh deaths due to the spread of the novel coronavirus on Friday. As on Friday morning, India’s Covid-19 death toll stood at 99,773, however, the toll crossed the 1-lakh mark as states came out with their fresh daily numbers of new cases and deaths by evening.
Maharashtra, the worst-hit state due to coronavirus, alone recorded 15,591 fresh cases of Covid-19 along with 424 new virus-related deaths on Friday. The fresh cases took Maharashtra’s caseload to 14,16,513.
Earlier on Friday, the Union Health Ministry said India’s active cases India’s active Covid-19 cases remained less than 10 lakh for the eleventh consecutive day.
Even as the death toll crossed the 1-lakh mark, India still continues to maintain its global position of having the maximum number of recovered patients.
With 78,877 people having recuperated from Covid-19 in a span of 24 hours, India’s total recoveries surged to 53,52,078 pushing the recovery rate to 83.70 per cent, according to health ministry data updated at 8 am.
As on Friday morning, there were 9,42,217 active cases of coronavirus in the country, which comprised 14.74 per cent of the total caseload.
Fourteen states and union territories, including Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Puducherry, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa and Sikkim, had less than 5,000 active cases of Covid-19, the ministry highlighted.
Meanwhile, in the eight months since the first case of coronavirus infection was detected on January 30, September alone recorded 26,21,418 infections, accounting for 41.53 per cent of the over 63 lakh Covid-19 cases (as on Oct 1) reported in the country so far.
The past month also saw 33,390 deaths due to the disease and 24,33,319 people recuperating from coronavirus infection contributing to around 46.15 per cent of the total recoveries India had registered as on Thursday.