New Delhi: India on Wednesday clocked a single day spike of 44,281 fresh COVID cases during the past 24 hours, pushing the country’s over all nCOV case tally to 86,36,012, the Union Health Ministry update said here. It was after a while that the single spike in cases was recorded below the 40,000 mark on Tuesday which again climbed above 40 k on Wednesday. Talking of fatalities, the highly contagious virus claimed 512 lives since Tuesday , taking the pandemic death toll to 1,27,571, the government data added. Meanwhile, there were 50,326 patients who defeated COVID in the past 24 hours , taking the total recovery count to 80,13,784. In percentage, the active cases are now at 5.73 per cent, cured /discharged at 92.79 per cent and deaths due to COVID 19 are 1.48 per cent of the total case count of the country till date.