Covid-19: India records 39,097 new cases, 546 deaths

India's Covid-19 tally rose marginally on Saturday after at least 39,097 fresh cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, the union ministry of health and family welfare data showed.

The country also recorded 546 fatalities on Saturday, taking the total death toll to 420,016,  the health ministry's website showed, reports the Hindustan Times.

India has reported 31,332,159 cases of coronavirus disease so far, according to government data.

Active cases of Covid-19 in the country stood at 408,977 after 3,464 new infections were added to the caseload, accounting for 1.3 per cent of the total cases India has seen since the start of the pandemic. 

At least 35,087 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovered count of people to 30,503,166. The recovery rate in the country was logged at 97.36 per cent, the data showed.

A total of 4,27,882,261 Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in India so far, of which 4,267,799 were given in the last 24 hours, the health ministry data showed.