India reports biggest spike of nearly 3L Covid cases, 2,023 deaths

In a grim milestone, India has reported 2,95,041 new cases in the last 24 hours. With the new development, the country's overall Covid tally reached 1.56 crore, according to latest update from the health ministry released on Wednesday.

India also reported record number of 2,023 deaths. It is for the first time since the pandemic that the daily deaths crossed 2,000, taking the total death toll so far in the country to 1,82,553. India had reported 1,761 deaths on Tuesday.

For the last seven days, India has been reporting over 2 lakh cases daily cases from across the country. India reported 2,59,170 cases on April 20, 2,73,510 on April 19, 2,61,500 on April 18, 2,34,692 on April 17, 2,17,353 on April 16 and 2,00,739 on April 15.

A total of 16,74,57 patients recovered in the same time span, taking the number of recoveries to 1,32,76,039 with a recovery rate of 85.56 per cent.

A total of 16,39,357 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 27,10,53,392 samples have been tested in the country, said Indian Council of Medical Research.

In the last 24-hour, a total of 29,90,197 people were also vaccinated in the same period, taking the total inoculation count to 13,01,19,310.

Meanwhile, overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 142.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.04 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.