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Coronavirus India Latest Updates: Daily Infection Rate Drops Below 30,000

Follow the latest updates on the Covid-19 pandemic in India here.

<div class="paragraphs"><p>Shoppers and passers-by are reflected in a window at a fruit and vegetable market in Chennai. (Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg)</p></div>
Shoppers and passers-by are reflected in a window at a fruit and vegetable market in Chennai. (Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg)

India's daily infection rate drops below 30,000, even as a projected third wave is expected to peak in October, threatening the country's economic recovery.

As many as 29,616 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours according to the Health Ministry’s update as of 8 a.m. on Sept. 25. That compares with the 28,046 recoveries recorded in the same period.

Active cases, currently just above 3 lakh, constitute less than 1% of the total tally.

Key Coronavirus Data

  • Total confirmed cases: 3,36,24,419

  • Total number of active cases: 3,01,442

  • Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,28,76,319

  • Total deaths: 4,46,658

  • Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 29,616

  • Number of recoveries in a day: 28,046

  • Deaths recorded in a day: 290

  • Total vaccine doses administered: 84,15,18,026

  • Doses administered in the last 24 hours: 72,20,642