New Delhi, Nov 9 (UNI) India has clocked a fresh spike of 45,903 new COVID cases in the past 24 hours , pushing the country's total case count so far to 85,53,657, the Union Health Ministry update said here on Monday morning.

Fatality count due to the pandemic till date has now surged to 1,26,611 , after 490 more lives were claimed by the virus during the same time.

Active case count of the country has further reduced by 2,992 on Monday and the country currently has 5,09,673 patients battling the deadly virus.

Talking of recoveries , there were 48,405 patients cured/discharged since Sunday ,taking the total number of COVID survivors so far to 79,17,373 across the nation.

In percentage , the active cases are now 5.96 per cent, discharged at 92.56 per cent and deaths 1.48 per cent of the total case count of the country.

According to the Indian Council for Medical Research , there were 8,35,401 COVID tests conducted on Sunday, and till date, the total number of tests done so far now stand at 11,85,72,192.

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