India clocks fresh spike of 45,209 COVID cases, 501 deaths

New Delhi: India has registered a fresh spike of 45,209 nCoV cases in the past 24 hours, pushing the tally close to 91 lakh on Sunday, the Union Health Ministry said in its daily update here.

After adding the new cases, the nation's overall case count has now reached 90,95,807 till date.

The active case load of COVID contagion has slightly increased by 1,215 since Saturday and presently there are 4,40,962 such cases across the country.

Talking of the COVID deaths, 501 more lives were claimed in the same duration by the virus, and the toll has increased to 1,33,227.

Meanwhile, 43,493 more recoveries recorded in the past one day, and the total recovery count has now reached 85,21,617 till date.

In percentage, active cases are 4.85 per cent, discharged 93.69 per cent and the deaths 1.46 per cent of the total case count till date.

According to the ICMR, a total of 13,17,33,134 COVID tests have been done till date across the nation. (UNI)