India' Covid-19 death toll crosses 4 lakh mark, 46,617 new cases

New Delhi, July 02: With 853 fresh fatalities, India became only the third country to report over four lakh Covid-related deaths after the US and Brazil. Of these, Maharashtra accounts for 1.25 lakh of these, while Karnataka has reported over 35,000. Tamil Nadu has seen more than 32,000 deaths till now.

India's daily caseload of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) witnessed a further dip, as the country recorded 46,617 new Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending 8 am Friday, taking the total to over 3.04 crore.

Active cases declined to over 509,637 while over 2,95,48,302 people have recovered after testing positive.

India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23.