India recorded 14,933 new COVID-19 cases; total tally to 4,40,215

Out of the total number of confirmed cases, 1,78,014 are currently active and 2,48,189 have recovered.

India witnessed a spike of almost 15,000 fresh cases of novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours taking the total tally in the country to 4.4 lakh with 312 new fatalities. On Sunday, India had recorded a spike of 15,413 COVID-19 cases. According to Health Ministry data, 312 more people succumbed to the deadly disease taking the total tally of deaths to 14,011. The number of patients recovering from COVID-19 continues to rise. The recovery rate has further improved to almost 56.37 per cent amongst COVID-19 patients. The number of government labs for testing samples has increased to 722 and private labs to 259. India conducted COVID-19 tests on 1,87,223 people in the last 24 hours. (IANS)

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