India registers over 6,000 new coronavirus cases in one day, highest till date

New Delhi : India has registered 6,088 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, making it the highest single-day spike till date, Health Ministry data showed this morning, with 148 deaths reported in the same period.

With this, the total count of coronavirus cases in India has climbed to 1.18 lakh and a total number of deaths stood at 3,583.

There are 66,330 active COVID-19 cases in the country.

The number of people who have recovered after contracting the virus has risen to 48,534 and the recovery rate - the percentage of people to have recovered - stood at 40.97 per cent, a minor increase from 40.31 per cent Thursday morning.