India records 43,393 new COVID-19 cases, 911 deaths over past 24 hours
Minakshamma, 68, receives a dose of COVISHIELD, a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, at a vaccination centre in Bengaluru, May 13, 2021. REUTERS pic
NEW DELHI: India has confirmed 43,393 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 30,752,950, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday.
The death toll from the disease has reached 405,939 people, with 911 new fatalities being recorded over the past day, Sputnik reported.
More than 29.88 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed 45,892 new coronavirus cases, with 817 fatalities.
India comes second in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, following the United States with more than 33.79 million patients.
The World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 185.48 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 4 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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