With a jump of 36,652 fresh infections across states in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 tally has surged past the 96-lakh mark, government data shows.
The country now has 96,08,211 total cases of Covid, of which 1,39,700 people have died because of the viral disease; some 512 people lost their lives in the last 24 hours.
Total active cases - total cases minus recovered people - continued to fall and were close to 4 lakh.
Daily recoveries remained significantly higher than new infections as 42,533 people were discharged. With this, more than 90.58 lakh people have recovered from coronavirus till now.
