Number Of COVID-19 Cases In India Rises By 89,129 Over Past 24 Hours - Health Ministry

Faizan Hashmi Published April 03, 2021 | 09:50 AM

NEW DELHI (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 03rd April, 2021) India has confirmed 89,129 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 12,392,260, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Saturday.

The death toll from the disease has reached 164,110 people, with 714 new fatalities being recorded over the past day. More than 11.56 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak.

A day earlier, the country confirmed 81,466 new coronavirus cases, with 469 fatalities.

India comes third in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, following the United States and Brazil, with more than 30.6 million and 12.91 million COVID-19 patients, respectively.

The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 130.14 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 2.83 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.