DATA STORY: India sees over 1,000 Covid-19 deaths in a day for first time in a fortnight

With 72614 new daily recoveries, India's recovery has gone past 88%; fatality rate remains unchanged at 1.52%

India on Sunday reported more than 1,000 Covid-19 deaths in a day for the first time in a fortnight. The 1,033 fatalities that the country say on Saturday were the most since the 1,069 reported on October 3. On the positive side, however, India saw daily another net reduction of 11,776 in active coronavirus cases to bring its count down to 783,311 – the lowest since August 31 and 23 per cent lower than the September 18 peak of 1,017,754.
 
The country has reported as many as 1,409,384 cured coronavirus cases in October so far, including 72,614 on Sunday,