Covid-19 update: India records 38,617 cases, 449 deaths in last 24-hour

India reported  38,617 covid-19 cases in last 24-hour, pushing country's total to 88,74,291. The death toll have mounted to 1,30,519 with 449 new deaths. As of now, there are 4,53,401 active cases while 82,90,371 people have recuperated from the virus.

Maharashtra is the worst hit country by the pandemic with 85,363 covid-19 cases followed by Kerala and Delhi with 71,046 and 40,128 cases respectively.

In the past ten days, the country has seen a downward trend in daily cases and has reported below 50,000 cases.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 8,44,382 samples for COVID-19 were tested on November 16 while a total of 12,65,42,907 samples tested so far.

The Health Ministry said that covid-19 recovery has further improved to 93.27 per cent. For the 46th day straight, India's number of recoveries surpassed the daily new additions.

Here're more updates related to the virus:

*Jharkhand's Covid-19 tally mounted to 1,06,491 as 261 more people tested positive for the infection, a health department official said on Wednesday. 

*Mizoram reports 37 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total cases here to 3,481, including 2,972 discharges and 5 deaths. Active cases stand at 504.

*Delhi reported nearly double the number of daily coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours in comparison to yesterday. The number of cases went up from 3,797 to 6,396 as the number of tests went up.

*Mumbai reported 541 new cases of Covid-19, pushing the tally of infected people in the metropolis to 2,70,654. 

*Talking about post-Covid era, PM Modi on Wednesday said that one of the areas that requires global attention is ensuring urban rejuvenation.

*There'll be no lockdown but there can be local restrictions at some busy places, said Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain. Maximum tests are being conducted which we'll further increase, he added.

*France became the first European country to record over two millions of confirmed Covid-19 cases, although pandemic has shown signs of slowing, said Health General Director Jerome Salomon.

*Noida administration deploys #COVID19 testing team to conduct random tests of commuters at Delhi-Noida Border Visuals from DND flyway at Delhi-Noida border(ANI).

* Iraq has reported 2,961 new Covid-19 cases, pushing the country's tally to 5,24,503.

Meanwhile, the overall covid-19 cases crossed 55 million mark on Tuesday, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.3 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.