With 36,652 fresh Covid-19 cases, India’s total tally breaches 96-lakh mark

India’s coronavirus tally breached the 96-lakh mark after 36,652 new infections reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s data on Saturday.

The overall coronavirus cases reached 96,08,211 including 4,09,689 active cases and 90,58,822 recoveries. With 512 new deaths, the cumulative toll mounted to 1,39,700.

According to the ministry, calibrated and effective strategy of the Centre focused on high levels of testing, combined with early identification, timely tracing, isolation, and hospitalisation for the severe cases, have resulted in a manageable number of active cases and continuously rising number of recoveries. “India’s active cases have fallen below 4.2 lakhs, while the recovered cases have leapt past 90 lakhs,” the MoHFW said on Saturday.

India’s active caseload was 4.35 per cent of the total number of cases as on Friday. The last time the daily new cases crossed the 50,000-threshold was on November 7.

Meanwhile, the total number of tests for the COVID-19 conducted in the country reached 14,58,85,512, of which, 11,57,763 were conducted on Friday, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.