India's COVID-19 tally rose to 43,147,530 on Friday, as 2,710 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the health ministry's latest data. Besides, 14 deaths from the pandemic registered since Thursday morning took the total death toll to 524,539. Also Read: Global Covid cases top 530 million There are still 15,814 active COVID-19 cases in the country with an increase of 400 active cases during the past 24 hours. So far, 42,607,177 people have been successfully cured and discharged from hospitals, of whom 2,296 were discharged during the past 24 hours.    

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 43,018,032 on Saturday, as 1,660 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, as many as 4,100 deaths due to the pandemic were reported since Friday morning, taking the total death toll to 520,855. This sudden rise in the number of deaths in the country was because "4,005 deaths were reconciled by Maharashtra," said a senior official at the federal health ministry. Read: 11 dead in India godown fire There are still 16,741 active COVID-19 cases in the country even as there was a fall of 4,789 active cases during the past 24 hours. So far 42,480,436 people have been successfully cured and discharged from hospitals so far, out of which 2,349 were discharged during the past 24 hours. 

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 42,867,031 on Wednesday, as 15,102 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, 278 deaths due to the pandemic since Tuesday morning took the total death toll to 512,622. Read: India to have 1 billion smartphone users by 2026: Deloitte There are still 164,522 active COVID-19 cases in the country with a fall of 16,553 active cases during the past 24 hours. A total of 42,189,887 people have been cured and discharged from hospitals so far, out of which 31,377 were discharged during the past 24 hours.

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 42,655,534 on Monday, as 34,113 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the health ministry's latest data. Besides, 346 deaths due to the pandemic since Sunday morning took the total death toll to 509,011. Read: Global Covid cases top 411 million There are still 478,882 active COVID-19 cases in the country with a fall of 58,163 active cases during the past 24 hours. This was the 21st consecutive day when the number of active cases declined in the country. A total of 41,677,641 people have been successfully cured and discharged from hospitals so far, out of which 91,930 were discharged during the past 24 hours. 

 A record number of 184,372 new COVID-19 cases, and 1,027 deaths due to the pandemic were registered across India in the past 24 hours, said the latest data released by the federal health ministry on Wednesday. The new figures took the total tally to 13,873,825 and the total death toll to 172,085. The single-day spike in the number of new COVID-19 cases is the highest in the country so far, while the number of deaths in a single day is the highest this year. This is the ninth time within this month, and the eighth consecutive day, when more than 100,000 new COVID-19 cases were reported in India. There are still 1,365,704 active cases in the country, while 12,336,036 people have been discharged so far from hospitals after medical treatment. Also Read: India records highest spike of daily COVID-19 cases this year In January the number of daily cases in the country had come down to below-10,000. As many as 9,102 new cases were reported between January 25-26, which was the lowest in the previous 237 days. Prior to that the lowest number of daily new cases were 9,304 registered on June 4, 2020. January 16 was a crucial day in India's fight against the pandemic as the nationwide vaccination drive was kicked off from the day. So far over 111 million people (111,179,578) have been vaccinated across the country. Meanwhile, the federal government has ramped up COVID-19 testing facilities across the country, while over 260 million tests have been conducted so far. As many as 260,618,866 tests have been conducted by Tuesday, out of which 1,411,758 tests were conducted on Tuesday alone, said the latest data issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday. Also Read: India's COVID-19 tally rises to 11,599,130 with nearly 44,000 new cases . The national capital Delhi, which has been one of the most COVID-19 affected places in the country, witnessed over 13,468 new cases and 81 deaths through Tuesday. The single-day deaths in Delhi are said to be the highest in over four months. So far 11,436 people have died in the national capital due to COVID-19, confirmed the Delhi's health department.   Two types of vaccines are being administered to the people in India. 

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India’s total covid-19 cases rose to 2,153,010 with the death of  43,379 people, said the latest data issued by the federal health ministry on Sunday.

India has witnessed 933 COVID-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours till Friday and fresh infections surged by another 61,537 cases to reach nearly 2.1 million.

India recorded 1.9 million Covid-19 cases with the detection of 52,509 cases in the past 24 hours on Wednesday.

India has registered one million coronavirus cases, the third highest after the US and Brazil, according to  report of the Health Ministry on Friday.   In the last 24 hours, the country has reported 34,956 new cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 1,003,832.   The surge in Covid-19 cases is also prompting concerns about the country's readiness to confront an inevitable surge that could overwhelm hospitals and test India’s feeble health care system.   The Health Ministry also reported a record number of 687 deaths for a total of 25,602 and noted that the recovery rate was continuing to improve at 63 percent.   The grim milestone comes at a time when several Indian states are imposing focused lockdowns to stem the outbreak amid frantic efforts by local governments to protect the economy.   So far, three states — Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu — have accounted for more than half of total cases. But in India’s vast countryside, which is much less prepared and with weaker health care facilities, the pandemic is clearly growing.   “The acceleration in cases remains the main challenge for India in the coming days,” said Dr Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, adding that a vast majority of cases were still being missed.   The continuing surge has forced authorities to reinstate lockdowns in some cities and states.   In Bangalore, a city that prides itself as the centre of of Indian technology innovation, the government ordered a weeklong lockdown that began Tuesday evening after the cases surged exponentially.   In Bihar, an eastern state with a population of 128 million and a fragile health system, a two-week lockdown was announced Thursday.   In Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state with more than 200 million people, authorities have started placing residents under strict weekend curfews, which will remain in place until the end of July.   Other local governments are increasingly focusing on smaller lockdowns that shield the economy. Nearly a dozen states have imposed restrictions on “containment zones” — areas that can be as small as a few houses or a street.   Dr Anant Bhan, a global health researcher, said that India was likely to see “a series of peaks,” as the infection spread in rural areas. He pointed out that New Delhi and the financial capital, Mumbai had already seen surges, while infections have now shifted to smaller cities.   India’s response to the virus was initially sluggish and then it bought time by locking down its entire population of 1.4 billion people when Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide lockdown for three weeks on March 24.   “If (the) situation is not handled in these 21 days, the country and your family could go back 21 years,” Modi said then in a televised address to Indians, many of whom were still unaware of the scale of the crisis in the country.   The nationwide lockdown, then extended for five more weeks, came at an enormous economic cost amid an unprecedented humanitarian crisis when millions of impoverished migrant workers were forced to return to the countryside due to job losses and hunger.   Aimed at increasing the capacity of the health care system, the lockdown slowed down the virus, but it wasn't enough. Cases kept increasing while testing still remained abysmally low and the virus rocketed through India’s vast landscape.   “Slowdown isn’t eradication,” said Jayaprakash Muliyil, an epidemiologist at the Christian Medical College in Vellore.   Muliyil said that India had to try and slow down the virus because it didn’t have enough beds but was only partly successful since the “requirement was quite large.”