NEW DELHI: India's Covid-19 cases soared by over 20,000 in a day for the first time taking the country's total tally to 6,25,544 on Friday, while the
death toll climbed to 18,213 with 379 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
The country recorded 20,903
coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours till Friday 8 am.
The number of recoveries stands at 3,79,891 while one patient has migrated.
There are 2,27,439 active cases of coronavirus infections presently in the country.
"Thus, around 60.73 per cent of patients have recovered so far," an official said.
The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners.
Of the 379 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 125 are from Maharashtra, 61 from Delhi, 57 from Tamil Nadu, 19 each from Gujarat and
Karnataka, 17 from Uttar Pradesh, 16 from
West Bengal, 11 from Haryana, 10 from Jammu and Kashmir, nine from Rajasthan, eight each from
Telangana and Madhya Pradesh, seven from
Bihar, five from Andhra Pradesh, three from
Punjab, two from Puducherry and one each from
Kerala and Uttarakhand.