India reports 17,092 fresh COVID-19 cases, 29 deaths in past 24 hours

India witnessed a marginal rise in its daily Covid tally with 17,092 new cases in the past 24 hours, against previous day's 17,070 count, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. In the same period, 29 Covid deaths were recorded taking the nationwide death toll to 5,25,168. Meanwhile, the active caseload has also increased to 1,09,568, accounting for 0.25 per cent of total positive cases.