India witnessed more Covid-19 recoveries than fresh infections even as the active caseload further contracted to 4.8 lakh on Saturday.
A fresh spike of cases in the national capital continued to be a matter of concern as Delhi struggled to meet the sudden demand for ICU beds to treat Covid-19 patients.
On Saturday morning, India had reported 44,684 new Covid-19 infections and 520 deaths, taking the overall tally to 87,73,479, as the toll touched 1,29,188, the Health Ministry said.
Currently, there are 4,80,719 active cases, whereas 81,63,572 patients have been cured and discharged so far.
The recovery rate stands at 93.05% and the fatality rate is 1.47%, the Ministry said.
The total recovered cases stand at 81,63,572 and the gap between the recovered cases and active cases presently stood at 76,82,853.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) conducted 9,29,491 sample tests on Friday, taking the total tested samples to 12.40 crore.
Maharashtra continued to be the worst-hit state with 17,40,461 cases to date. There are 84,082 active cases and 45,809 Covid-19 deaths.
Delhi recorded a spike of 7,802 Covid-19 cases on Friday taking its infection tally to over 4,74,830, while 91 more fatalities pushed the national capital's death toll to 7,423.
The other worst-hit states are Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh.
With 6,498 persons recovering from Covid-19, Delhi saw the most recoveries in the past 24 hours ending Saturday morning while Kerala reported 6,201 recoveries and Maharashtra 4,543.
Of the 520 deaths that have been reported till Saturday morning, 79.23% were from ten States/UTs.
As many as 24.4% of new fatalities reported are from Maharashtra which reported 127 deaths. Delhi and West Bengal follow with 91 and 51 new deaths, respectively.