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Covid-19 India Updates: New Cases Fall Below 35,000, 417 Deaths Reported

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

<div class="paragraphs"><p>An Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) nurse returns the remaining Covishield Covid-19 vaccines. (Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg)</p></div>
An Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) nurse returns the remaining Covishield Covid-19 vaccines. (Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg)

Fresh Covid-19 infections in India fell below 35,000 after six days, even as concerns over a third wave of the pandemic persist.

India added 32,937 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. 16, 2021.

Daily recoveries continued to exceed daily infections, taking the country's active caseload to 3.81 lakh.

Key Coronavirus Data

  • Total confirmed cases: 3,22,25,513

  • Total number of active cases: 3,81,947

  • Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,14,11,924

  • Total deaths: 4,31,642

  • Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 32,937

  • Number of recoveries in a day: 35,909

  • Deaths recorded in a day: 417

  • Total vaccine doses administered: 54,58,57,108

  • Doses administered in the last 24 hours: 17,43,114

As many as 417 patients succumbed to the deadly pathogen, taking India's total death toll above 4.31 lakh.