Yet another single-day spike of 60,963 COVID-19 cases and 834 deaths reported in the country in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.With this, the total number of Covid-19 infections on Wednesday rose to 23,29,639 including 46091 fatalities, 6,43,948 active cases and 16,39,600 recoveries.
The country has the third-highest cases in the world after the US and Brazil.According ICMR 2,60,15,297 samples have been tested up to August 11 for COVID19 across the country. Of these, 7,33,449 samples were tested on Tuesday.
Even as the country currently ranks fifth in the total number of deaths (45,257) due to Covid-19, India’s health ministry on Tuesday reiterated that deaths as a proportion of known infected cases has been falling consistently.
