India saw a single-day rise of 46,617 new Coronavirus infections and 853 fatalities, which took the total Covid-19 toll to 4,00,312, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday morning.

The active cases dropped sharply by 13,620 to 5,09,637. The national Covid-19 recovery rate has improved to 97.01 per cent.  Weekly positivity rate has declined to 2.57 per cent. Recoveries continue to outnumber daily new cases for 50th consecutive days.