India on Monday witnessed the highest drop in the daily covid-19 cases in the past two months. According to the Union Health Ministry data released this morning, India reported 1,00,636 new cases of coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours.
The death toll due to coronavirus reached 3,49,186 with 2,427 new fatalities, the lowest in around 45 days, the data updated at 8 am showed.
This is the lowest number of daily new cases reported in India in 61 days. The country had reported 96,982 daily new cases on April 6.
At 1,74,399, the number of recoveries continued to outnumber the daily new cases for the 25th consecutive day. Total recoveries reported across the country rose to 2,71,59,180.
According to the Union Health Ministry data, there are currently 14,01,609 active cases across the country.
The Indian Council of Medical Research has informed that a total of 36,63,34,111 samples have been tested up to June 6, of which 15,87,589 samples were tested on Sunday.
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