This is the seventh consecutive day that COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 50,000.
The death toll climbed to 4,59,873 with 221 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The death toll climbed to 4,69,724 with 477 fresh fatalities including, 403 from Kerala, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The daily COVID-19 cases have remained less than one lakh for 19 consecutive days.
The fatality rate has further dropped to 2.07 per cent, the data stated.
The country had recorded 355 deaths on December 17 last year.
Thirteen Indian nationals, who arrived in Delhi from Liberia on Tuesday, have been cleared after being screened for the Ebola virus, the health ministry said.
The active cases comprises 0.38 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has further improved to 98.42 per cent.
The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 175.83 crore.
The daily COVID-19 cases have remained below one lakh for 15 consecutive days.
According to the ministry's website, more than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities.
The death toll climbed to 5,10,905 with 492 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
The number of tests for detection of COVID-19 also crossed the three crore-mark in the country, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 50,921 with 941 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours.
The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.52 per cent.
The COVID-19 case fatality rate was recorded at 1.49 per cent.
The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.
The daily COVID-19 cases have been recorded less than one lakh for nine consecutive days.
The ICMR claimed that no country has yet reported successful isolation and culture of the UK-variant of SARS-CoV-2.
The total coronavirus cases mounted to 88,74,290 with 29,163 infections being reported in a day while the death toll climbed to 1,30,519 with 449 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
India reported less than one lakh new coronavirus infections after a gap of 63 days, while the daily positivity rate dropped to 4.62 per cent, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Tuesday.
The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been recorded below 15,000 for the last 53 days now.
From 2.82 per cent over a month earlier, India's COVID-19 case fatality rate declined to 2.72 per cent on July 10 and has further reduced to 2.49 per cent presently.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,11,80,751.
The active cases have surpassed the 12-lakh mark, while the death toll increased to 1,70,179 with 904 daily new fatalities, the highest since October 18, the data updated at 8 am showed.
India has sent a team to Kabul to oversee the delivery of India's humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and hold discussions with the Taliban over the aid provided by New Delhi.
Termed 'Unlock 1', the Centre on Saturday issued fresh guidelines relaxing the nationwide lockdown, the fourth phase of which ends on May 31.
Thirty districts in the country, including 13 in Kerala, eight in Mizoram, four in Meghalaya, three each in Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, two in Sikkim and one in Meghalaya are reporting a weekly positivity rate of over 10 per cent.
The COVID-19 case fatality rate due to the coronavirus infection stands at 1.7 per cent.
We must fight this global challenge confronting humanity together, Khan said on Twitter.
According to the latest data available from the Centre and the states in the night, the total number of Omicron cases in the country was around 1,200.
The active cases comprise 0.11 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate further improved to 98.69 per cent, the ministry said.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7.
Kumar, a 1992-batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, is currently an additional secretary in the ministry of electronics and Information Technology.
The total coronavirus cases mounted to 49,30,236, while the death toll climbed to 80,776 with 1,054 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The COVID-19 vaccine of Biological-E is currently undergoing phase-3 clinical trial after showing promising results in phase 1 and 2 trials.
With 17,51,555 people defeating the disease, the recovery rate has surged to 71.17 per cent.
The death toll has climbed to 4,89,848 with 439 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said that maybe people of Chennai believe that the threat of coronavirus will subside with the onset of summers or they are just not taking the issue seriously.
There are 9,73,175 active cases of COVID-19 in the country which comprises 20.47 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
The COVID-19 case fatality rate has declined to 1.84 per cent.
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