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Covid-19 India Updates: New Cases Cross The 40,000-Mark Again, Over 500 Deaths Reported

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

<div class="paragraphs"><p>Protective masks for sale on the street in Bengaluru, India. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)</p></div>
Protective masks for sale on the street in Bengaluru, India. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)

Fresh cases of Covid-19 in India spiked, once again, as the healthcare system braces for the third wave.

More than 42,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry's update on Aug. 4. The daily infection rate had dropped to 30,000 the previous day, in what proved to be a brief respite.

The active case load remained above 4 lakh.

Key Coronavirus Data

  • Total confirmed cases: 3,17,69,132

  • Total number of active cases: 4,10,353

  • Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,09,33,022

  • Total deaths: 4,25,757

  • Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 42,625

  • Number of recoveries in a day: 36,668

  • Deaths recorded in a day: 562

  • Total vaccine doses administered: 48,52,86,570

  • Doses administered in the last 24 hours: 62,53,741

562 patients succumbed to the deadly pathogen in a single day, taking the country's total death toll to nearly 4.26 lakh.