Covid-19 cases saw a slight decline on Friday. As many as 91,702 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative caseload to 2,92,74,823, said the Union health ministry.
New cases had reached 94,052 the day before. The number of new fatalities has jumped above the 3,000-mark once again with 3,403 more people succumbing to the disease.
With this, the death toll in the country has reached 3,63,079.With Bihar revising its data, the death toll in India had surged to 3,59,676 on Thursday.
The state added 3,951 backlog fatalities to its toll after the Patna High Court last month flagged irregularities.On the other hand, the number of recoveries that were once nearing 3 lakh a day seems to be slowing down as.