Till Friday morning, India has recorded 29,398 new Covid-19 cases, taking the country's tally to 97,96,770. India recorded 414 deaths in a day taking the toll to 1,42,186.

The total active cases in the country stand at 3,63,749 as of Friday. The total discharged cases are at 92,90,834 with 37,528 new discharges in the last 24 hours.

Maharashtra, with 3,824 fresh cases, remained on top of the worst-hit list of Indian states, with its overall infection number now at 18,68,172. It reported 70 new deaths related to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 47,972 since the outbreak in January.

Globally, the coronavirus has infected more than 6.95 crore people and killed over 15.80 lakh, according to the Johns Hopkins University. Over 4.48 crore people have recovered from the infection.

The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 70,676,944. While 49,127,969 have recovered, 1,587,420 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 16,020,811 cases, and 299,576 have died from the disease there. It is followed by India, which has 9,796,992 cases, Brazil (6,783,543), Russia (2,569,126), France (2,337,966).