Indiaon Saturday recorded 2,34,692 fresh Covid cases, the highest single-day spikeever, taking the country's overall Covid tally to 1,45,26,609, according to theHealth Ministry data.
Thisis the third consecutive day that the country has registered over 2 lakh Covidcases. India recorded 2, 00,739 and 2, 17,353 cases on Thursday and Fridayrespectively.
Meanwhile,as many as 1,341 people died of Covid in the last 24 hours, taking thecountry's death toll to 1,75,649 so far. The daily active cases tally on Fridayrose to 16,79,740.
Atotal of 1,23,354 patients recovered in the same time span, taking the numberof recoveries to 1,26,71,220, with a recovery rate of 87.23 per cent.
TheHealth Ministry said that a total of 14,95,397 samples were tested in the last24 hours.
Sofar, 26,49,72,022 samples have been tested in the country.
Accordingto the government data, a total of 30,04,544 people were also vaccinated in thesame period, taking the total inoculation count to 11,99,37,641.
Delhiand Maharashtra recorded their biggest single-day rise in coronavirus casessince early 2020. The national capital has registered on Friday night 19,486new cases.
Thefive most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (3,703,584), Kerala(1,197,301), Karnataka (1,109,650), Tamil Nadu (962,935), and Andhra Pradesh(942,135).