DW BUREAU / Chandigarh Haryana recorded 1,250 fresh COVID-19 cases taking the infection tally to 1,39,932 on Friday, while 14 more coronavirus fatalities pushed the state's death toll to 1,562, the Health department said. Of the latest coronavirus fatalities, three deaths were reported in Panipat, two each in Gurugram, Hisar, Jhajjar and Yamunanagar, while one death each was reported in Ambala, Rohtak and Bhiwani, according to the state health department's daily bulletin.The districts which reported new cases include Gurugram (261), Faridabad (153), and Hisar (108), it said.There are 10,830 active cases in the state as of now, while the recovery rate was 91.14 per cent, the bulletin said. India's COVID-19 tally of cases went past 69 lakh with 70,496 infections being reported in a day, while active cases of infection fell below 9 lakh after a month, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 69,06,151. The death toll climbed to 1,06,490 with 964 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. The total recoveries have surged to 59,06,069 pushing the recovery rate to 85.52 per cent, while there are 8,93,592 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 12.94 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated. The COVID-19 case fatality rate due to the coronavirus infection was recorded at 1.54 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 ICMR, a cumulative total of 8,46,34,680 samples have been tested up to October 8 with 11,68,705 samples being tested on Thursday. The 964 new fatalities include 358 from Maharashtra, 101 from Karnataka, 68 Tamil Nadu, 63 from West Bengal, 45 from Uttar Pradesh, 42 Andhra Pradesh and 37 from Delhi. A total of 1,06,490 deaths have been reported so far in the country includes 39,430 from Maharashtra followed by 10,052 from Tamil Nadu, 9,675 from Karnataka, 6,245 from Uttar Pradesh, 6,128 from Andhra Pradesh, 5,653 from Delhi. (editor@dailyworld.in)