India's COVID-19 tally breached the three-lakh mark on Saturday with a record single-day spike of 11,458 infections, while the death toll rose to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said. With a COVID-19 caseload of 3,08,993, India is now the fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic, according to the Worldometer, a coronavirus statistics website. Active cases stand at 1,45,779, while 1,54,329 people have recovered and one patient has migrated.
"Thus, around 49.9 per cent patients have recovered so far," a ministry official said. The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners. Of the 386 new deaths reported by the ministry in its data updated at 8 am, 129 were in Delhi, 127 in Maharashtra, 30 in Gujarat, 20 in Uttar Pradesh, 18 in Tamil Nadu, 9 each in West Bengal, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh, 7 each in Karnataka and Rajasthan, 6 each in Haryana and…
