Coronavirus: India’s COVID-19 tally rises to 95.71 lakh, recovery rate over 94%

First Published Dec 4, 2020, 11:58 AM IST

India's total Covid-19 case tally rises to 95,71,559 with 36,594 new infections in the last 24 hours. While death toll mounts to 1,39,188 with 540 new deaths.

India's Covid-19 caseload rose to 95.71 lakh, while the total number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 90 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 94.20%, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.

The total coronavirus cases mounted to 95,71,559 with 36,595 new infections being reported in a day, while the death toll climbed to 1,39,188 with 540 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 90,16,289 pushing the national recovery rate to 94.20%, while the Covid-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.45%.

The active Covid-19 caseload continued to remain below 5 lakh. There are 4,16,082 active coronavirus infections in the country which comprises 4.35% of the total caseload, the data stated.

India's Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and 40 lakh on September 5.It went past 50 lakh on September 16, 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, and surpassed 90 lakh on November 20.