India's Covid-19 cases tally crossed 20 lakh mark with the highest single-day spike of 62,538 cases on Friday. The Covid-19 tally rises to 20,27,075 including 6,07,384 active cases while the recovery rate has gone up to 67.62%.

This is the ninth consecutive day that COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 50,000.

In the past 24 hours, 886 patients succumbed to coronavirus infection taking the death toll to 41,585. India's deaths per million population is now 30 (world average: 92)

It took India three weeks to post its second million. And the majority of the new cases - 42 percent - has come from five states, namely Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar.

The number of Covid-19 cases in India reached five lakh (or half million-mark) on June 26, in just a little over 19 days. The next half-million came on July 16, according to an analysis of data from states and union territories.

After the one million-mark, India crossed the 1.5 million milestones on July 28 and two million on August 6.