NEW DELHI: India added 17,070 fresh coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, taking the country's tally of covid cases to 4,34,69,234, and pushing up active caseload to to 1,07,189, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Friday.
Death toll climbed to 5,25,139 with 23 new fatalities in the past 24 hours. Active cases in the national capital now stand at 3,914, while Maharashtra has 24,940 cases, Haryana has 2,613 cases, while Kerala has 29,504 cases at present.
Tamil Nadu has 11,094 active cases and Karnataka 5,896. The surge in daily fresh infections has pushed up the positivity rate to 3.40% while the weekly positivity rate is at 3.59%.
Recoveries were at 13,827 in the last 24 hours. Since the onset of the pandemic, more than 4,28,22,493 people have recovered from covid.