COVID-19 tally crosses 73 lakh-mark in India

Death toll at 111266

New Delhi, Oct 15: The number of positive cases due to Novel Coronavirus crossed the mark of 73 lakh on Thursday, as the country registered fresh 67,708 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the overall tally to 73,07,098, while the death toll reached 1,11,266 after 680 more people succumbed to the deadly virus in the past 24 hours.

According to the Union Health Ministry, 81,514 COVID patients were cured/discharged during the same time-frame, taking the total number of recoveries to 63,83,441 and recovery rate to 87.36 per cent.
The country is currently home to 8,12,390 active cases of the contagion.

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