India reports less than 50K daily new COVID-19 cases for the fifth successive day - November 12, 2020
India reports less than 50,000 daily new cases for the successive fifth day. The total number of persons tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours stand at 47,905. There is also a trend of daily new recoveries exceeding daily new cases and this has been going on for the 40th day with 52,718 new recoveries recorded in the last 24 hours. It is also to be noted that India’s active COVID-19 cases amount to 4,89,294.
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