Covid-19 India Updates: New Cases Exceed Daily Recoveries For Fifth Straight Day

India’s fresh coronavirus infections exceeded daily recoveries for the fifth straight day amid.

BQ Desk @bqprime

01 Aug 2021, 10:43 AM IST

<div class="paragraphs"><p>Buddhist monks register for the Covishield Covid-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center set up at a Tibetan Children's Village School in Dharamshala. Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg</p></div>

Buddhist monks register for the Covishield Covid-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center set up at a Tibetan Children's Village School in Dharamshala. Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg

India’s fresh coronavirus infections exceeded daily recoveries for the fifth straight day amid concerns over an impending third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

India added 41,831 fresh cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally to over 3.2 crore in the world’s second-most populous country, according to the Health Ministry’s update as of 8 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2021. That surpassed 39,258 people who recovered in a day, causing the active cases to inch up slightly.

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Key figures:

Total confirmed cases: 3,16,55,824.
Total number of active cases: 4,10,952.
Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,08,20,521.
Total deaths: 4,24,351.
Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 41,831.
One-day recoveries: 39,258.
One-day deaths: 541.

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