COVID-19: India records over 48,000 fresh cases in the last 24 hours

India on Wednesday was well over the 15-lakh mark as it registered 48,513 fresh novel coronavirus cases and 768 new deaths, revealed the data by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

India still the third worst-hit nation by the pandemic, now has 15,31,669 cases and 34,193 people have lost their lives due to the infectious coronavirus. Till date approximately 9,88,029 patients have been recovered of the COVID-19 disease.

The total number of active cases are 5,09,447. The recovery rate has further improved to 64.50 per cent.

As per the data Maharashtra continues to be the worst-hit state with 3,83,723 registered cases. However experts have suggested that the state has acquired herd immunity as there were much less fresh cases reported on July 28.

It is followed by Tamil Nadu (2,20,716), Delhi (1,32,275) and Karnataka( 1,01,465)