Coronavirus: India reports 39,097 new COVID-19 cases; 546 deaths in last 24 hours

New Delhi, July 24: Union health ministry on Saturday said that India's COVID-19 tally rose marginally after at least 39,097 fresh cases were recorded in the last 24 hours. The country also recorded 546 fatalities on Saturday, taking the total death toll to 420,016.

According to the health ministry, active cases of COVID-19 in the country stood at 408,977 after 3,464 new infections were added to the caseload, accounting for 1.3 per cent of the total cases India has seen since the start of the pandemic.

As many as 35,087 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovered count of people to 30,503,166. The recovery rate in the country was logged at 97.36 per cent, the data showed.

Barely two months after the second wave has shown signs of receding significantly, health experts and authorities are on guard for any possible surges. At its peak on May 6, India saw at least 414,188 Covid-19 cases in a span of just 24 hours.

However, the cases have dipped from then to settled at one-seventh of what the peak witnessed. Covid-19 cases in the country have now plateaued as India continues to record cases between 30,000 to 50,000 infections for more than 30 days.