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New Delhi : Altogether 79,415 COVID-19 patients were declared cured/discharged in India during last 24 hours taking the tally to 68,74,518 in the country at 8 am on October 22, 2020, exceeding the number of active cases (7,15,812) by a massive margin of 61,58,706. The country also recorded 55,839 new COVID-19 cases during last 24 hours taking the tally of cases recorded so far to 77,06,946. The number of active cases was 9.29% of the total cases reported so far in the country (77,06,946) on October 22, 2020.
Of the 77,06,946 COVID-19 cases recorded till date in the country, a total of 68,74,518 patients have been declared cured with the recovery rate being 89.20%. The country has tested 9,86,70,363 samples till date including 14,69,984 samples on October 21, 2020.
The COVID-19 toll climbed to 1,16,616 on October 22, 2020, with 702 new deaths being reported from different places across the country during last 24 hours including 180 from Maharashtra, 88 from Karnataka, 64 from West Bengal, 47 from Delhi, 44 from Chhattisgarh, 41 from Uttar Pradesh, 9 from Tamilnadu, 27 from Andhra Pradesh, 26 from Kerala, 23 from Punjab, 17 from Madhya Pradesh, 14 from Haryana, 14 from Rajasthan, 14 from Uttarakhand, 13 from Odisha, 9 from Gujarat, 8 from Bihar, and 5 from Assam. The Case Fatality Rate was 1.51% in the country on October 22, 2020.
COVID-19 death toll break-up in India on October 22, 2020, is : Maharashtra (42,633), Tamilnadu (10,780), Karnataka (10,696), Delhi (6,128), Andhra Pradesh (6,508), Uttar Pradesh (6,755), West Bengal (6,244), Gujarat (3,660), Madhya Pradesh (2,828), Rajasthan (1,788), Punjab (4,060), Telengana (1,292), J&K (1,402), Haryana (1,674), Bihar (1,019), Odisha (1,181), Jharkhand (851), Assam (889), Uttarakhand (960), Kerala (1,232), Chhattisgarh (1,628), Puducherry (580), Goa (557), Tripura (334), Chandigarh (209), Andaman & Nicobar (56), Himachal Pradesh (279), Ladakh (68), Manipur (124), Nagaland (28), Meghalaya (77), Arunachal Pradesh (31), Sikkim (63), and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (2 ).