India News | India Adds 50,848 Fresh COVID-19 Cases
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. India's total tally of COVID-19 cases crossed the 3-crore mark with one crore infections being added in 50 days.
New Delhi, June 23 (PTI) India's total tally of COVID-19 cases crossed the 3-crore mark with one crore infections being added in 50 days.
The total tally mounted to 3,00,28,709, with 50,848 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day.
The death toll climbed to 3,90,660 with 1,358 fresh fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.
India's total COVID-19 infections had surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19 after which it took around 136 days to cross the 2-crore mark on May 4.
The active cases further declined to 6, 43,194 comprising 2.14 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 96.56 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.
A net decline of 19,327 cases has been recorded in the COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.PTI PLB
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