Friday, 19 April, 2024
By Manveena Suri, New Delhi, May 7 (CNN): India reported 414,188 cases of Covid-19 on Friday, a new all-time high for the number of coronavirus cases in a day, according to figures released by India's Health Ministry.
To date, authorities have identified 21,491,598 cases in the country. Only the United States has had more.
Indian authorities also reported 3,915 other Covid-19-related deaths, making Friday the 10th day in a row the daily number of fatalities has exceeded 3,000.
At least 234,083 people have died after contracting the coronavirus in India.
As of Thursday evening local time, authorities had administered 164,876,248 vaccine doses, the Health Ministry said. A total of 32,845,736 people in India have received both doses of the vaccine -- about 2.5 per cent of India’s 1.3 billion population.
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