Guwahati: New Covid-19 cases saw another jump on Thursday with 48,786 more people testing positive in the last 24 hours, said the Union health ministry.
The number stood at 45,951 the previous day. With the addition of new infections, the cumulative tally has reached 30,411,634.
Further, the number of new fatalities has gone upwards too as 1,005 succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours. The death toll due to coronavirus in India now stands at 3,99,459.
On the brighter side, daily recoveries outnumbered fresh infections for the 49th day straight with 61,588 people getting discharged between Wednesday and Thursday. This took the total number of discharges to 2,94,88,918.
As a result, the active tally has fallen to 5,23,257, declining by 13,807 and constitutes 1.72% of the total infections.
India has tested 41,01,00,044 samples for Covid-19 until now, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
Out of these, 19,21,450 samples were tested on Wednesday. As many as 19,60,757 in the previous 24 hours period.
