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India maintains steady decline in COVID-19 cases, 22,272 new added in 24 hours

| @indiablooms | Dec 26, 2020, at 03:37 pm

New Delhi: India maintained its steady decline in COVID-19 cases and in the last 24 hours the country added 22,272 new cases, as per Ministry of Health released data on Saturday.

The total number of cases in the country now stands at 1,01,69,118.

The death toll due to the disease now stands at147343 after 251 new deaths were reported due to the highly infectious virus.

So far, 9740108 people have been discharged from hospital.

There are 281667 active cases in the country at present.

Meanwhile,  the global number of people, who have died of the coronavirus, has surpassed 1.75 million people, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) said.

The exact death toll stood at 1,750,057 people as of 03:50 GMT.

More than 79,8 million people have tested positive for COVID-19 across the world, JHU adds.

The United States, India and Brazil remain the worst-hit nations by the pandemic.  

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