India’s Covid death count rose to 5,16,132 with 60 fresh fatalities reported in the last 24 hours.  The current case-fatality rate is 1.20 percent. The country, which registered at least 2,539 new COVID-19 cases during this period,  saw the total number of infections touching  4,30,01,477. According to the health ministry, the active cases comprise 0.08 percent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate further improved to 98.72 percent. A reduction of 1,106 cases has been recorded in the active caseload in a span of 24 hours and the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,24,50,055.