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Covid-19 India Updates: Over 44,000 New Cases, 464 Deaths Reported In A Day

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

<div class="paragraphs"><p>People wait to pay before receiving a dose of Covishield. (Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg)</p></div>
People wait to pay before receiving a dose of Covishield. (Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg)
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Daily Covid-19 infection rate in India continued to rise in signs of the third wave hitting the world's second-most populous nation.

More than 44,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry's Aug. 6 update. This marks the third straight day where daily cases have remained above the 42,000 mark.

India's active case load also marginally rose to 4.14 lakh.

Key Coronavirus Data

  • Total confirmed cases: 3,18,56,757

  • Total number of active cases: 4,14,159

  • Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,10,15,844

  • Total deaths: 4,26,754

  • Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 44,643

  • Number of recoveries in a day: 41,096

  • Deaths recorded in a day: 464

  • Total vaccine doses administered: 49,53,27,595

  • Doses administered in the last 24 hours: 57,97,808

As many as 464 fatalities were also reported in the same period, taking India's total death toll to 4.26 lakh, only behind the U.S. and Brazil.