Hyderabad: India reported 55,342 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its coronavirus tally over 71.7 lakh-mark. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 71,75,880 people have contracted coronavirus so far in the country.
The death toll also mounted to 1,09,856 on Tuesday after, 706 more people succumbed to the deadly virus since Monday morning.
Currently, there are 8,38,729 active cases in India, while, 62,27,295 people have recovered from coronavirus so far. One patient has also migrated to another country.
Notably, India has sustained the trend of a steady decline of COVID-19 active cases which remained below nine lakhs for the fifth consecutive day. The national recovery rate from COVID-19 infection is close to 86.50 per cent.
A total number of samples tested up to 12th October is 8,89,45,107 including 10,73,014 samples tested yesterday, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.
