India reported 20,038 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s total tally of Covid-19 infections from the beginning of the pandemic to 4,37,10,027.
With an increase of 2,997 cases from the previous day, India’s active caseload shot up to 1,39,073 from 1,36,076, according to the Union health ministry data on Friday morning.
The active cases comprise 0.32 per cent of the total infections.
India registered 47 Covid-related deaths from across the country in a single-day. The country’s overall death toll since the beginning of the pandemic has now reached 5,25,604.
The 47 new fatalities include 20 from Kerala, five from West Bengal, four from Maharashtra, three from Punjab, two each from Assam, Bihar, Haryana and Uttarakhand, and one each from Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Nagaland and Sikkim.