NEW DELHI, Oct 12 (NNN-PTI) – With 66,732 new cases registered in India over the past 24 hours, the country’s COVID-19 tally rose to 7,120,538 today, according to the latest data released by the federal health ministry.
The death toll reached 109,150 with 816 deaths since Sunday morning, showed the ministry’s data.
The trend over the past few weeks showed that the rise in COVID-19 tally and deaths per day has slowed down, as the increase in the number of cases has fallen below 70,000-mark and the deaths below 900 per day.
Still there are 861,853 active cases across the country, while 6,149,535 people were successfully cured and discharged from hospitals.
Yesterday the tally surpassed the seven-million mark. The last one million cases were added to the tally in 13 days (Sept 28 – Oct 10) while the previous one million cases were added in 12 days (Sept 16 – Sept 28).
For over two months India’s focus has been on ramping up the testing facilities. According to the latest data from the Indian Council of Medical Research, as many as 87,872,093 tests were conducted till Sunday, out of which 994,851 tests were conducted on Sunday alone.
