The COVID-19 active caseload is 37, 04,893 which now comprises 15.41 per cent of the total infections.
New Delhi: New cases of coronavirus infection in India were recorded over 3.40 lakh, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2, 40, and 46,809 according to the Union Health Ministry data.
The COVID-19 active caseload is 37, 04,893 which now comprises 15.41 per cent of the total infections.
The recovery rate is 83.50 per cent, the data stated. A total of 3,43,144 new infections were registered in a day, while the death count increased to 2,62,317 with 4,000 daily new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today he empathised with people’s pain and suffering because of Covid and described the virus as an invisible and quick-changing enemy that was challenging the whole world.
“Because of this coronavirus, we have lost people close to us. The pain that citizens have suffered, that many experienced, I am feeling it equally,” PM Modi said in his online address at a farmers’ event.
