new delhi covid19 recoveries in india have crossed 69 lakh while the number of coronavirus infections reported in a span of 24 hours remained below 60000 for the fifth consecutive day as the countrys caseload rose to 7761312 according to union health ministry data updated on fridaya total of 54366 new infections were reported in a day while the death toll climbed to 117306 with 690 fatalities the data updated at 8 am showedthe number of active cases of the coronavirus infection is below 7 lakh there are 695509 active cases of covid19 in the country as on date which comprises 896 per cent of the total caseload the data stateda total of 6948497 people have recuperated from the disease so far pushing the national recovery rate to 8953 per cent while the case fatality rate due to covid19 was recorded at 151 per centindias covid19 tally had crossed the 20lakh mark on august 7 30 lakh on august 23 and 40 lakh on september 5it went past 50 lakh on september 16 60 lakh on september 28 and crossed 70 lakh on october 11according to the indian council of medical research icmr a cumulative total of 100113085 samples have been tested up to october 22 with 1442722 samples being tested on thursdaythe 690 new fatalities include 198 from maharashtra 74 from karnataka 64 from west bengal 52 from chhattisgarh 45 from tamil nadu and 35 each from uttar pradesh and delhithe total 117306 deaths reported so far in the country include 42831 from maharashtra 10825 from tamil nadu 10770 from karnataka 6790 from uttar pradesh 6524 from andhra pradesh 6308 from west bengal 6163 from delhi 4072 from punjab and 3667 from gujaratthe health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbiditiesour figures are being reconciled with the indian council of medical research the ministry said on its website and added that statewise distribution of figures is subject to further verification and reconciliation