Coronavirus Live Updates: India logged more than 20 Lakh coronavirus cases on Friday, with the countrywide figure standing at 20,27,074. The country is behind Brazil, which has more than 2.9 million cases and the US, which is leading the list of nations hit worst by the pandemic, with close to 5 million cases.
A sharp surge of 62,538 new coronavirus patients in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said this morning, adding that number of Covid-linked deaths have crossed 41,000.
A total of 13,78,105 patients have recovered since the beginning of the pandemic, the government data shows. More than 850 Covid-19 patients have died since yesterday. While India's recovery rate stood at 67.98 per cent this morning, the positivity rate - that indicates the percentage of patients testing positive for the highly infectious illness - stood at 10.88 per cent.
Over 2.27 crore samples have been tested so far in India, which has a population of about 130 crore people.
In the last 24 hours, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh were the five states that recorded the highest surge in Covid cases.