NEW DELHI, Apr 22 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally reached 15,930,965 today, as a record single day spike of 314,835 new cases was recorded. This is the first time when over 300,000 cases were registered in a day.
According to the figures released by the health ministry, as many as 2,104 deaths took place in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 184,657.
There are still a total of 2,291,428 active cases in the country, with an increase of 133,890 active cases yesterday, as 13,454,880 people have been cured and discharged from hospitals so far across the country.
The COVID-19 figures continue to peak in the country every day, but the federal government has ruled out imposing a complete lockdown to contain the worsening situation.
While some school exams are cancelled, others have been postponed in the wake of the situation. The capital Delhi has been put under a week-long lockdown till Apr 26.
The number of daily cases has been on the rise over the past few weeks. In Jan the number of daily cases in the country came down to below-10,000.
India kicked off a nationwide vaccination drive on Jan 16. So far, over 132 million vaccination doses (132,330,644) have been administered to people across the country.– NNN-PTI
