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New Delhi : Altogether 33,494 Covid-19 patients were declared cured/discharged in India during last 24 hours taking the tally to 93,24,328 at 8 am on December 12, 2020, exceeding the number of active cases (3,59,819) by a huge margin of 89,64,509. The country also recorded 30,006 new Covid-19 cases during last 24 hours taking the tally of cases recorded so far to 98,26,775 cases on December 12, 2020. The number of active cases in the country was just 3.66% of the total Covid-19 cases recorded till date, a drop of 3,930 cases during last 24 hours.

Of the  98,26,775 Covid-19 cases recorded so far in the country, a otal of 93,24,328 patients have been declared cured with the recovery rate being 94.89%. India has tested 15,26,97,399 samples so far.

The Covid-19 toll climbed to 1,42,628 on December 12, 2020, with 442 new deaths being recorded across the country during last 24 hours including 87 from Maharashtra, 60 from Delhi, 50 from West Bengal, 29 from Kerala, 29 from Punjab, 23 from Haryana, 20 from Himachal Pradesh, 17 from Tamilnadu, 16 from Karnataka, 14 from Uttar Pradesh, 14 from Rajasthan, 14 from Chhattisgarh, 13 from Gujarat, 11 from J&K, 9 from Madhya Pradesh, 9 from Uttarakhand, 5 from Bihar, 2 from Jharkhand, and 2 from Andhra Pradesh. The Case Fatality Rate was 1.45% in the country on December 12, 2020. India had recorded 414 new deaths on December 11, 2020.

COVID-19 death toll in India on December 12, 2020, is : Maharashtra (48,059), Tamilnadu (11,870), Karnataka (11,928), Delhi (9,934), Andhra Pradesh (7,049), Uttar Pradesh (8,025), West Bengal (8,966), Gujarat (4,148), Madhya Pradesh (3,382), Rajasthan (2,514),  Punjab (5,036), Telengana (1,489), J&K (1,786), Haryana (2,699), Bihar (1,312), Odisha (1,798), Jharkhand (995), Assam (1,000), Uttarakhand (1,341), Kerala (2,562), Chhattisgarh (3,068), Puducherry (619), Goa (703), Tripura (375), Chandigarh (299),  Andaman & Nicobar (61), Himachal Pradesh (793), Ladakh (123), Manipur (320), Nagaland (68), Meghalaya (124), Arunachal Pradesh (55), Sikkim (118), Mizoram (7), and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (2 ).