India reports 263,533 Covid-19 cases, 4329 deaths
NEW DELHI: India registered 263,533 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s infection tally past the 25 million mark to 25,228,996, the Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) dashboard showed on Tuesday morning.
Also, in this period, 4,329 lives were lost to the viral disease, taking the death toll to 278,719, the dashboard further showed.
Though India registered a marginal rise in its new Covid-19 cases, it logged less than 300,000 cases for a second straight day.
On Monday, the ministry’s dashboard showed that 281,386 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the preceding 24 hours, making it the first time in several days that India’s Covid-19 tally increased by less than 300,000 fresh infections from a single-day.
However, the related daily death toll, which has oscillated between more than 4,000 fatalities per day to nearly 4,000 fatalities a day, was recorded at 4,106.
According to the updated data, recovered cases have reached 21,596,512 with 422,436 additional discharges, while active cases are at 3,353,765, down by 163,232 from the previous bulletin. Recoveries, active cases and deaths together contribute 85.60%, 13.30% and 1.10% respectively of the national tally.
The number of samples tested in the last 24 hours also witnessed a rise, with 1,869,223 samples tested in this period, up from 1,573,515 from the 24-hour period before that, the government-run Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) tweeted on Tuesday. Total 318,292,881 samples have been tested till May 17, the ICMR data showed.
