Covid-19: India crosses 1 million mark, reports 34,956 cases and 687 deaths in last 24 hours

New Delhi: India reported 34,956 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 687 deaths between Thursday and Friday morning, in another record jump in a single day, according to the Union health ministry.

The country’s infection tally is now at 1,003,832 and India has now become only the third country in the world after the United States and Brazil with more than a million cases of the coronavirus disease. The death toll stands at 25,602.

The country crossed the million-mark in 137 days and half of these were in a hard nationwide lockdown announced in the early days of the pandemic.

The number of recovered cases at 635,756 is more than half of the active patients. With 22,942 patients sent home from hospitals over the last 24 hours, the recovery rate has gone up to 63.33%, data showed.