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New Delhi : Altogether 70,816 COVID-19 patients were declared cured/discharged in India during last 24 hours taking the the tally to 65,24,595 at 8 am on October 17, 2020, exceeding the number of active cases (7,95,087) in the country by a huge margin of 57,29,508. The country, on the other hand, also reported 62,212 new COVID-19 cases during the same period taking the tally to 74,32,680 on October 17, 2020. The number of active cases was 10.70% of the total COVID-19 cases ( 74,32,680) detected till date in the country on October 17.
Of the 74,32,680 total COVID-19 cases in the country, altogether 65,24,595 patients have been declared cured with the recovery rate being 87.78%. India has tested 9,32,54,017 samples till date including 9,99,090 samples on October 16, 2020.
The COVID-19 toll surged to 1,12,998 on October 17, 2020, with 837 new deaths being reported from different places across the country during last 24 hours including 306 from Maharashtra, 73 from Karnataka, 61 from West Bengal, 57 from Tamilnadu, 46 from Uttar Pradesh, 25 from Andhra Pradesh, 40 from Chhattisgarh, 9 from Bihar, 11 from Gujarat, 9 from Telangana, 26 from Punjab, 15 from Odisha, 25 from Madhya Pradesh, 15 from Rajasthan, 22 from Delhi, 11 from Haryana, 8 from J&K, and 4 from Jharkhand. The Case Fatality Rate was 1.52% in the country on October 17, 2020.
COVID-19 death toll break-up in India on October 17, 2020, is : Maharashtra (41,502), Tamilnadu (10,529), Karnataka (10,356), Delhi (5,946), Andhra Pradesh (6,382), Uttar Pradesh (6,589), West Bengal (5,931), Gujarat (3,617), Madhya Pradesh (2,735), Rajasthan (1,723), Punjab (3,980), Telengana (1,265), J&K (1,366), Haryana (1,634), Bihar (981), Odisha (1,104), Jharkhand (824), Assam (853), Uttarakhand (829), Kerala (1,113), Chhattisgarh (1,425), Puducherry (571), Goa (531), Tripura (326), Chandigarh (206), Andaman & Nicobar (56), Himachal Pradesh (262), Ladakh (65), Manipur (109), Nagaland (22), Meghalaya (75), Arunachal Pradesh (30), Sikkim (59), and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (2 ).