DW BUREAU / Chandigarh The COVID-19 infection tally in Punjab on Thursday rose to 5,99,304 with 40 fresh cases, according to a medical bulletin. No Covid-related death was reported on Thursday. The death toll, which stands at 16,301, includes two fatalities which were not reported earlier, according to the bulletin. The number of active cases stands at 464, it said. Fazilka, Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana reported five cases each, followed by four each in Amritsar and Mohali. With 45 recoveries from the infection, the number of cured people reached 5,82,539, it said. Meanwhile, Chandigarh reported one case of COVID-19, taking the total count to 61,966, according to the bulletin. While the toll stood at 811, the number of active cases in the city was 28. The total number of cured people stands at 61,127. India added 42,982 new coronavirus infections in a single day taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,18,12,114, while the active cases increased to 4,11,076, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 4,26,290 with 533 fresh fatalities. The active cases comprise 1.29 per cent of the total infections and the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.37 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed. An increase of 723 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.India crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 and three crore on June 23. (editor@dailyworld.in)