New Delhi:
With 8,635 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, India recorded the lowest single-day rise in its tally in nearly eight months, the government data this morning showed. A total of 1,07,66,245 infections have been logged since January 30 last year when Kerala reported the country’s first COVID-19 case – a student who had returned from China’s Wuhan where the pandemic is believed to have originated.
More than 1.04 crore patients have recovered in a year; 1,54,486 deaths linked to the disease have been recorded so far. In the last 24 hours, 94 deaths of patients who contracted Covid were reported across the country.