New
Delhi, (the states. news)
With the
detection of 12,408 new Covid-19 (#Corona_virus) cases over the past 24
hours, the tally in the country reached 1,08,02,591 Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare said on Friday.
The death toll in the country mounted to 154,823 with 120 new fatalities being
recorded over the past day. More than 10.48 million people have recovered since
the start of the outbreak, while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.43
per cent.
The country has recorded 17,824 discharges taking the total number of
recoveries to 1,04,96,308, the national COVID-19 recovery rate now stands at
97.13 per cent, as per the health ministry update.
According to the ICMR, 19,92,16,019 samples have been tested up to February 4
with 7,42,841 samples being tested on Thursday.
India comes second in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases,
following the United States, with more than 26.55 million COVID-19 patients.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on
March 11. To date, more than 104.3 million people have been infected with the
coronavirus worldwide, with over 2.26 million fatalities, according to Johns
Hopkins University. (uni) (media saheb.com)
COVID : India records 12,408 new COVID-19 cases
