India's COVID tally crossed the 16 lakh mark on Friday with the highest single-day spike of 55,079 positive cases.
The total cases number of cases stand at 16,38,871 including 5,45,318 active cases and 10,57,806 cured/discharged, the Health Ministry said in its morning update.
The country also recorded 779 deaths in the last 24 hours raising the toll to 35,747.
The total number of COVID19 samples tested up to July 30 is 1,88,32,970 including 6,42,588 samples tested on Thursday, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) informed.
More than one million people have recovered till now, over 1.9 times the number of active cases.
As many as 16 states and UTs have a recovery rate more than the national average of 64.44 per cent. Highest number of recovered patients are in Delhi, Ladakh, Haryana, Assam, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.
Maharashtra remains to be the worst-hit state and has 4,11,798 total cases, including 2,48,615 recovered cases and 1,48,150 active cases. It is followed by Tamil Nadu, which has 2,39,978 cases and then Delhi, which logged 1,34,403 cases.
Besides this, India achieved another landmark. More than six lakh tests were done in 24 hours on Thursday, the Ministry said that the testing infrastructure has increased and almost one crore tests were conducted in the span of the last one month.
At the global front, The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 17.2 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 6,71,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
As of Friday morning, the overall number of cases stood at 1,72,37,642, while the fatalities rose to 6,71,909, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.
