Friday, 26 April, 2024
By Manveena Suri, Delhi, May 11 (CNN): India recorded 329,942 cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, bringing the total to 22,992,517, according to figures released by the Health Ministry.
This is the second day in a row that the number of new daily cases reported has been below 400,000. India had previously recorded four consecutive days of over 400,000 cases.
The country also reported 3,876 deaths Tuesday. Since April 28, the daily number of deaths has exceeded 3,000, with the total death toll at 249,992.
India is the second-worst affected country after the United States with 32.7 million cases and ahead of Brazil, which has the third-highest number of cases at 15.2 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.
To date, 172,633,761 vaccine doses have been administered in India. With 37,159,467 people having received their second dose, around 2.85 per cent of India’s 1.3 billion-strong population is fully vaccinated, the Health Ministry said this week.
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