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DATA STORY: India sees biggest single-day jump in cured coronavirus cases

With 62,282 new recoveries, the most in a day so far, India's recovery rate has increased to 74.30%, while death rate has come down to 1.89%

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A health worker wearing personal protective equipment collects a swab sample from a resident at a Covid-19 testing site in the courtyard of a school in New Delhi.

BS Web Team New Delhi

4 min read Last Updated : Aug 21 2020 | 12:32 PM IST

India on Friday reported its biggest single-day spike in number of recovered cases (62,282) to take its recovery rate 74.30. Its total tally went past the 2.9 million mark to stand at 2,905,823, with 68,898 cases getting added to the total in 24 hours. The country’s Covid-19 death toll, meanwhile, reached 54,849, with 983 fatalities being reported in a day.

Now the third-most-affected country by total cases and fourth by death toll, India has added 444,633 cases in the past 7 days alone. Here are the key takeaways from the coronavirus data released by the Union Ministry of Health and

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