With a jump of almost 45,000 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, India's coronavirus tally touched the 85.5 lakh mark, government data shows. India also recorded 490 deaths linked to the viral disease in the 24-hour period taking its overall Covid death count to 1,26,611.
The 45,903 new infections in India were 0.5% higher than yesterday's. In this period, almost 48,000 people also recovered from the viral disease. With this, more than 79 lakh people have recovered from COVID-19, and there are now a little over 5 lakh active cases of coronavirus.
India's average daily case count has remained 45,000 for about two weeks now. Average daily deaths remained in the 480 to 490 range in this period with average daily testing of 8.5-9.5 lakh.
As the national case rise stagnates, the onset of winter and pollution left Delhi grappling with a third wave of coronavirus - its most severe yet.
Meanwhile, the world has reached the grim milestone of 50 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Sunday, Johns Hopkins University's coronavirus tracker reported.
Globally, more than 1.2 million have died of COVID-19 - the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 - since the first cases were reported in China.
