NEW DELHI: As many as 48,916 new coronavirus cases were reported in the last 24 hours in the country, taking the total number of cases to 13,36,861,according to the data released by the health ministry. The country also witnessed 757 virus-related deaths during the period. With 31,358 deaths, the fatalities in India is now the sixth-biggest in the world; the country is behind the US, Brazil, Britain, Mexico and Italy.

"At 864 cases per million and less than 21 deaths per million of our population, India has one of the world''s lowest infection and death rates," Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Friday, underlining that the recovery rate among coronavirus-infected patients in the country is 63.45 per cent while the mortality rate is 2.3 per cent.