India's Covid-19 death toll crossed one lakh and the infection tally climbed to 64,73,544, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 54 lakh pushing the recovery rate to 83.84 per cent, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.

The total coronavirus cases mounted to 64,73,544 with 79,476 new infections being reported in a day, while the death toll climbed to 1,00,842 with the virus claiming 1,069 lives in a span of 24 hours, data updated at 8 am showed.

The total recoveries have surged to 54,27,706, while there are 9,44,996 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 14.60 per cent of the total caseload, the data showed.

The case fatality rate was recorded at 1.56 per cent.

India's Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and 40 lakh on September 5. It went past 50 lakh on September 16 and crossed 60 lakh on September 28.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 7,78,50,403 samples have been tested up to October 2, of which 11,32,675 were tested on Friday.

Meanwhile, Delhi recorded 37 Covid-19 fatalities and 2,920 cases on Friday, pushing the death toll to 5,438 and the caseload to over 2.85 lakh, officials said.

On September 29, 48 deaths were reported, the highest number of fatalities recorded in a day since July 16, when the city saw 58 fatalities.

The fresh cases came out of the 56,258 tests conducted the previous day, according to a bulletin issued by the Delhi health department.

The active cases tally on Friday stood at 26,450.

The bulletin said the total number of cases has climbed to 2,85,672.

Meanwhile, the additional chief secretary, services, discussed the launch of an intensive Covid-19 campaign with all additional chief secretaries, principals secretaries, commissioner of municipal corporations, chairman NDMC, secretaries, heads of all departments, corporations, autonomous bodies of Delhi government.

The number of containment zones in Delhi jumped to 2,648 on Friday from 2,615 on Thursday.

The positivity rate stood at 5.19 per cent while the recovery rate was over 88 per cent, the bulletin said, adding the case fatality rate stood at 1.9 per cent.

Delhi government has significantly ramped up testing in the past few days.

The number of tests conducted and corresponding fresh cases reported, ranged from 24,198 (2,312) on September 1 to 61,973 (4,071) on September 19.

The number of Rapid-Antigen Tests conducted on Friday stood at 45,153, while 11,105 RT-PCR, CBNAAT and True NAAT tests were conducted.

The number of tests done per million, as on Friday, was over 1.67 lakh while the total number of tests stood at over 31.91 lakh.

The bulletin said 2,53,784 patients have recovered, been discharged or migrated so far.

Since August 18, cases have again started appearing in four-figure count in the city.

The bulletin said out of the total number of 15,844 beds in Covid hospitals, 9,773 are vacant. It said 909 beds in Covid care centres are occupied by persons under quarantine, including travellers who have returned by Vande Bharat Mission and bubble flights.

The number of people in home isolation slightly dropped to 15,852 compared to 15,899 previous day.