For the first time in three months, Covid-19 cases in India crossed the 13,000-mark, with the country reporting 13,216 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, according to Union Health Ministry data.

On February 26 this year, India recorded 11,499 Covid-19 cases. With this, India's active Covid-19 caseload rose to 68,108, which accounts for 0.16 per cent of the total cases. The government data today informed that as many as 8,148 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours thereby increasing the total recoveries to 4,26,90,845. The recovery rate currently stands at 98.63 per cent.