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Covid-19 India Updates: Over 37,000 New Cases, 648 Deaths Reported

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

<div class="paragraphs"><p>Passengers on a pedestrian bridge at Dadar railway train station in Mumbai. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)</p></div>
Passengers on a pedestrian bridge at Dadar railway train station in Mumbai. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)

India's daily Covid-19 infection rate spiked to 37,000, at a time the third wave is projected to peak in October.

As many as 37,593 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally to 3.25 crore in one of the world’s worst-hit nations, according to the Health Ministry’s update on Aug. 25, 2021.

The active case load has inched up for the first time in 11 days as fresh cases exceeded recoveries.

Key Coronavirus Data

  • Total confirmed cases: 3,25,12,366

  • Total number of active cases: 3,22,327

  • Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,17,54,281

  • Total deaths: 4,35,758

  • Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 37,593

  • Number of recoveries in a day: 34,169

  • Deaths recorded in a day: 648

  • Total vaccine doses administered: 59,55,04,593

  • Doses administered in the last 24 hours: 61,90,930

The daily fatality rate also rose to 648, almost double of the the previous day's death toll.