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Covid-19 India Updates: New Cases Fall Below 30,000 For First Time In Two Weeks

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

<div class="paragraphs"><p>A health worker administers a dose of Covid-19 vaccine. (Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg)</p></div>
A health worker administers a dose of Covid-19 vaccine. (Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg)

India's daily Covid-19 infection rate fell below 30,000-mark for the first time in two weeks even as the threat of a third wave grips the nation.

More than 28,200 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry's Aug. 10 update. Daily recoveries were significantly higher at 41,500 taking the country's active case load below 4 lakh.

Key Coronavirus Data

  • Total confirmed cases: 3,19,98,158

  • Total number of active cases: 3,88,508

  • Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,11,80,968

  • Total deaths: 4,28,682

  • Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 28,204

  • Number of recoveries in a day: 41511

  • Deaths recorded in a day: 373

  • Total vaccine doses administered: 52,56,35,710

373 people succumbed to the deadly pathogen in the same period, taking India's total death toll above 4.28 lakh.