India on Saturday recorded as many as 48,698 fresh cases of Covid-19 and 1,183 new deaths, according to the Union health ministry data at 8am.
With this, the country's total infection tally was pushed to 30,183,143 and the death toll neared the grim milestone of 400,000.
The health ministry data further showed that the number of active cases declined to 595,565, or 2.03% of the total cases and the total number of recoveries stood at 29,193,085, with 64,818 people being discharged in the last 24 hours.
Out of the total 51 cases of Delta Plus in the country, 22 were reported in Maharashtra, according to the Centre.