India's COVID-19 tally rose to 26,42,344 with a single-day spike of 63,490 infections, while the total number of recoveries rose to 19,09,541 pushing the recovery rate to 71.91 per cent on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to Coronavirus infection climbed to 50,951 with 944 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. India has been reporting over 60,000 cases daily since August 7, barring August 11 when the country registered 53,601 new cases of the infection. The case fatality rate has declined to 1.93 per cent.

There are 6,77,444 active cases of Coronavirus infection in the country presently which comprise 26.16 per cent of the total caseload in the country. India had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7.