A total 65,002 cases of COVID-19 infection across India was reported in the last 24 hours, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday stressing that 71.61 per cent of Corona patients so far have recovered.

A total 49,036 people have lost their lives to the virus so far, the ministry stated as 996 people lost died in the past one day, over 41 people every hour.