New coronavirus cases in India rose by 32 per cent in last 24 hours; COVID-19 tally at 89.12 lakh.
New Delhi:
With a 32 per cent one-day jump in the number of new coronavirus infections, India recorded 38,617 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, government data shows. The country has recorded a total of 89.12 Covid cases so far since the January outbreak.
The jump comes a day after the country recorded 29,164 new COVID-19 infections – less than 30,000 daily cases for the first time in over four months. The last time India’s daily Covid number dropped to under 29,000 was on July 15.
The national daily case rise reflects increased testing, which finally picked up in some states after a sharp drop over the weekend because of Diwali festivities.
Delhi, which is currently logging the highest one-day COVID-19 infections in India, saw its weekend case count double to 6,396 on Tuesday as the number of tests went up from 30,000 to 49,031. The number of deaths remained at 99, the same as yesterday — taking the total to 7,812.
India also saw 474 Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours, taking its overall fatalities to 1,30,993.
Total active cases fell by 6,596 taking the number of those receiving coronavirus treatment to 4,46,805.
In the last 24 hours, number of recoveries remained more than fresh cases as 44,739 people fought off the viral disease. With this, India’s total number of COVID-19 recoveries crossed 83 lakh.
