The single-day rise in new coronavirus infections in the country was recorded over 8,000 after 99 days, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.
A total of 8,329 infections were recorded in a span of 24 hours taking India's total tally of COVID-19 cases to 43,213,435 while the death toll has climbed to 5,24,757 with ten fresh fatalities, data updated at 8 am by the ministry stated.
The active cases have increased 40,370, comprising 0.09 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.69 per cent, the health ministry said.
An increase of 4,103 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 case count in a span of 24 hours. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.13 per cent while the weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 1.31 per cent, according to the data.