COVID-19: India’s daily count falls, total tally crosses 71 lakh.

The daily count of new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in India continues to fall. On Monday, the country recorded 66,732 new cases which took the total tally to 7,120,538, according to Union Health Ministry.

The number of new fatalities also saw a drop for the ninth consecutive day. India recorded 816 deaths due to the infection in the last 24 hours.

Nearly 84 per cent of these fatlities are reported from 10 states, with Maharashtra having reported maximum number (308) of these deaths. The fatality count now stands at 1,09,150.
The number of active cases fell further to 8,61,853, while 61,49,535 patients have cured of the disease, according to health ministry.

It took 110 days for the Covid-19 cases in the country to reach one lakh while it had taken 59 days more to go past the 10-lakh mark.

The Covid-19 case fatality rate (CFR) stands at 1.54 per cent, the health ministry had said on October 11.

According to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 8,68,77,242 samples have been tested till October 10 with 10,78,544 samples being tested on October 10.