Coronavirus India Live Updates: India has logged 68,898 cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours with 983 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday. The total number of cases in the country has now shot up to 29,05,823 with 54,849 deaths. A total of 21,58,946 COVID-19 patients have recovered from the infection, taking the recovery rate to 74.30 per cent, the ministry said on Friday.
Meanwhile, across the world, there have been a total of 2,26,57,915 confirmed coronavirus cases, according to the latest update. This includes 73,44,866 people who are being treated, 1,45,19,591 who have recovered and 7,93,458 who have died.
Here are the Highlights on Coronavirus Pandemic:

The planet should be able to rein in the novel coronavirus pandemic faster than the two years it took to tame the 1918 flu pandemic, the World Health Organization chief said Friday.

Coronavirus cases in Bengaluru, one of the worst-affected metro cities in the country, crossed the one-lakh mark today with 2,948 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Karnataka health department data this evening.
Delhi on Friday reported 1,250 new COVID-19 cases taking the total number of cases in the national capital to 1,58,604.
According to the bulletin of the Delhi government's health department, a total of 13 deaths were reported today, taking the death count to 4,270.
There are 11,426 active cases in the national capital, ANI reported.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met the family of a sanitation worker who died due to COVID-19 virus and handed over a cheque of ₹ 1 Crore as financial assistance on Friday. The sanitisation worker, Raju, had contradicted the virus while working amid the viral outbreak. Read more



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