new delhi indias covid19 tally raced past the 38lakh mark on thursday with the sharpest singleday spike of 83883 fresh cases while the number of recoveries surged to 2970492 pushing the recovery rate to over 77 per cent union health ministry data showedthe total number of coronavirus cases in the country mounted to 3853406 while the death toll climbed to 67376 as 1043 people succumbed to the disease in a span of 24 hours the data updated at 8am showedthe national covid19 recovery rate has risen to 7709 per cent and the case fatality rate due to the infection has further declined to 175 per centthere are 815538 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprise 2116 per cent of the total caseload the data statedindias covid19 tally had crossed the 20lakh mark on august 7 and went past 30 lakh on august 23according to the indian council of medical research a cumulative total of 45509380 samples have been tested up to september 2 with 1172179 samples being tested on wednesday the highest in a day so far