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Covid-19 India Updates: Daily Cases Fall To 25,000, 437 Deaths Recorded

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

<div class="paragraphs"><p>A signs for social distancing and wearing masks. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanthan/Bloomberg)<br></p></div>
A signs for social distancing and wearing masks. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanthan/Bloomberg)

New Covid-19 infections in India fell to around 25,000 for the first time in nearly three months, even as a projected third wave threatens to disrupt economic activity.

Authorities reported 25,166 new cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally to 3.2 crore in the world’s second-most populous country, according to the Health Ministry’s update on Aug. 17, 2021.

Daily recoveries continued to eclipse new infections, taking the country's active caseload down to 3.69 lakh.

Key Coronavirus Data

  • Total confirmed cases: 3,22,50,679

  • Total number of active cases: 3,69,846

  • Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,14,48,754

  • Total deaths: 4,32,079

  • Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 25,166

  • Number of recoveries in a day: 36,830

  • Deaths recorded in a day: 437

  • Total vaccine doses administered: 55,47,30,609

  • Doses administered in the last 24 hours: 88,13,919

437 patients succumbed to the deadly pathogen in the same period, taking India's total death toll above 4.32 lakh, the world's third worst.