With 5,921 people testing positive for the infection in a day, India’s COVID-19 case tally now stands at 4,29,57,477 and that of active cases at 63,878, showed the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday.
The death toll from the pandemic has climbed to 5,14,878 with 289 fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The count of daily COVID-19 cases has remained below one lakh for 27 consecutive days now.
The active cases comprise 0.17 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has further improved to 98.65 per cent, the ministry said.
