India recorded its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases with 69,878 new patients registered in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said Saturday morning, NDTV reported.

The latest spike takes India's tally to 2,975,701 cases.

About 22.22 lakh people have recovered.

A total of 55,794 COVID-linked deaths have been registered so far, and 945 patients have died since according to the official data.

The recovery rate stood at 74.69 percent Saturday morning.

India tested the highest number of samples on Friday—10,23,836.