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Coronavirus India Updates: India Adds 26,624 Confirmed Cases As Covid-19 Spread Continues To Slow

India adds fewer than 30,000 cases for the seventh straight day.

A health worker fixes their face shield at a Covid-19 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test site set up at Connaught place in New Delhi. (Photographer T. Narayan/Bloomberg)
A health worker fixes their face shield at a Covid-19 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test site set up at Connaught place in New Delhi. (Photographer T. Narayan/Bloomberg)

India's Covid-19 spread officially continues to slow even as the number of confirmed cases crossed the 1 crore milestone in the world’s second-most populous nation.

The south Asian nation added 26,624 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, adding to 1 crore market that it crossed a day earlier, according to the Health Ministry’s update at 8 a.m. on Dec. 20.

New infections have remained below 30,000 for the seventh straight day, a significant improvement from the daily tally of nearly 1 lakh reported in mid-September. Single-day deaths also remain below 400. At more than 29000, daily recoveries continued to surpass new cases for over two weeks now. Active cases have fallen below the 3.2-lakh mark.

Key Figures

  • Total number of confirmed coronavirus cases: 10031223

  • Active cases: 305344

  • Cured/discharged/migrated: 9580402

  • Deaths: 145477

  • Number of fresh cases in 24 hours: 26624

  • One-day recoveries: 29690

  • One-day deaths: 341

Global Update

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Total cases cases pass 76 million worldwide; deaths top 1.6 million.