Pune district in Maharashtra reported 3,611 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, which took its overall count to 1,60,455, a health official said on Friday.

The district's death toll due to the pandemic reached 3,937 with 64 succumbing to the infection during the day, he added.

"Of the 3,611 cases, 1,781 were from areas within the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits, which now has 90,871 patients," he said.

As many as 1,578 patients were discharged from hospitals on the day.

With 1,006 cases in neighbouring Pimpri Chinchwad township, the COVID-19 count there stands at 46,516 now.

The number of positive cases from rural areas of the district, the civil hospital and Pune Cantonment Board areas mounted to 23,068, he said.

Meanwhile, with more patients recovering and being discharged from home isolation (in case of mild and moderate cases) and hospitals (severe and critical cases), India's COVID-19 recoveries is nearing 26 lakh. 60,177 have recovered in the last 24 hours. With these national figures, the Recovery Rate amongst the COVID-19 has touched 76.28%.

The number of recoveries is nearly 3.5 times the active cases, which comprise 21.90% of the total cases. Higher number of recoveries has led to a constantly growing difference between recoveries and active cases. Crossing 18 lakhs, the difference stands at 18, 41,925 today.

The Union Government has adopted a graded and evolving strategic response to COVID management in India within the larger evolving global context. The early focus on surveillance and contact tracing through house-to-house survey was continuously strengthened with increase in testing for ensuring early identification of positive cases. This has ensured prompt isolation of the confirmed positive cases either in supervised home care for the mild and moderate cases, and hospitalisation in case of those who are exhibiting critical symptoms.

The Centre has led the country-wide response and management with steady ramping up of the hospital infrastructure through the three tiered Dedicated COVID facilities- Dedicated COVID Hospitals (DCHs) with ICU bed, ventilators etc., for critical care management; Dedicated COVID Health Centres (DCHCs) with oxygen beds and doctor on call facility; and COVID Care Centres (CCCs) with isolation beds. As on date, the country has 1723 DCH, 3883 DCHC and 11,689 CCC with a total of 15,89,105 isolation beds, 2,17,128 oxygen supported beds and 57,380 ICU beds. Effective treatment of the positive cases has resulted in a progressively dipping Case Fatality Rate, which is pegged at 1.82% today.