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India records biggest single-day spike of 64,399 new COVID-19 cases

| @indiablooms | Aug 09, 2020, at 04:59 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: India recorded a massive single-day spike of 64,399 new coronavirus patients taking the country's total tally to cross 21 lakh-mark, the Union Health Ministry stated on Sunday.

According to the Ministry, 68.32 per cent people cured/discharged/migrated taking the total number to 1,480,884.

A total of 43,379 deaths have been reported across the country.

This is the third consecutive day that India recorded more than 60,000 fresh infections of the contagion.

The country's coronavirus count reached 21,53,011 cases on Sunday, which includes 6,28,747 active cases.

 

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