Daily COVID-19 Cases In India Dip To 3.6L After 4 Straight Days With Over 4L Cases
Mumbai: The daily number of coronavirus cases in India dipped to 3,66,161 after the country reported more than four lakh cases for four consecutive days. This is for the first time after four straight days that India’s Covid-19 count has risen by less than 400,000 fresh infections.
In addition, 3,754 more people died due to viral illness in the last 24 hours, leading to 246,116 related deaths. The daily death toll in the country was more than 4,000 in the last two days. 1.08% of deaths from infections occur nationwide.
The dashboard of MoHFW showed that the number of recovered patients increased by 18,671,222 or 82.38% of the national tally, as 353,818 people were discharged in this period. Active cases, meanwhile, are at 3,745,237, up by 8,589, and contribute 16.52% of the national caseload, according to the dashboard.
The number of samples tested for the infection has reached 303,750,077, of which 1,474,606 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, the government-run Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said. However, in the 24-hour period before that, more than 1.8 million samples were put to test.
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