COVID19 cases cross 1 crore mark in India

India COVID Update, Dec 19: India on Saturday recorded another 25,153 new COVID19 cases in the past 24 hours, pushing the country’s total number of cases to over 1 crore.

Among the overall cases, the number of active Covid-19 cases stand at 3,08,751 while 95,50,712 have so far recovered from the infection since the first case was reported from Kerala on 30 January.

India COVID19 death toll cases have climbed up to 1,45,136, according to the data provided by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research said that it has tested 16,00,90,514 coronavirus samples so far, including 11,71,868 on Friday.

The recovery rate has improved to 95.4%, and the fatality rate stood at 1.45%. India became the second country after the United States to cross 1 crore coronavirus cases.