India registered 78,000 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry data on Thursday morning. The total Covid-19 case tally has now crossed 68 lakhs while 971 fresh fatalities have taken the death count to 1,05,526. There are a little over 9 lakh active cases and more than 58 lakh people have so far recovered from the contagion. India recovery rate has soared past 85%.