India's Covid tally nears 8 million
October 28, 2020 00:00:00
NEW DELHI, Oct 27 (Xinhua): India's COVID-19 tally reached 7,946,429 even as 36,470 more cases were registered during the past 24 hours, said the latest data released by the federal health ministry on Tuesday.
The death toll surged to 119,502, with 488 deaths recorded since Monday morning.
This is the first time in over four months when new cases per day have fallen below 40,000-mark, and the second day when deaths per day fell below 500 in the country.
Still there are 625,857 active COVID-19 cases in the country. In all 7,201,070 people have been successfully cured.
