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India's COVID-19 caseload goes past 81 lakhs with 48,648 fresh infections

New Delhi
October 31, 2020

With 48,648 fresh COVID-19 infections, India's caseload rose to 81,37,119 on Saturday, while the number of recoveries crossed the 74 lakh mark, pushing the recovery rate to 91.34%, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The country''s COVID-19 death toll climbed to 1,21,641 with 551 new fatalities, reports said.

A total of 74,32,829 people have recuperated from COVID-19 so far, taking the national recovery rate to 91.34 %. The case fatality rate has dropped to 1.49 %. The number of active COVID-19 cases remained below 6 lakh for the second consecutive day. There are 5,82,649 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country, which comprise 7.16 % 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 and crossed 80 lakh on October 29.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, a total of 10,87,96,064 samples had been tested for COVID-19 till October 30. Of these, 10,67,976 samples were tested on Friday. The 551 new fatalities include 127 from Maharashtra, 59 from West Bengal, 49 each from Chhattisgarh and Karnataka, 47 from Delhi and 38 from Tamil Nadu.