India has reported 2,73,810 fresh Covid cases in the last24 hours, the highest single-day spike ever, pushing the country's overallCovid tally to 1.5 crore, according to the Health Ministry data released onMonday.
This is the fifth consecutive day that the country hasregistered over two lakh Covid cases taking the total tally to 1,50,61,919cases. India on Sunday recorded 2,61,500 new cases, 2,34,692 cases on Saturday,2,00,739 and 2,17,353 cases on Thursday and Friday respectively.
Meanwhile, a total of 1,619 people died of Covid in thelast 24 hours, taking the country's death toll to 1,78,769 so far. The daily activecases tally rose to 19,29,329.
A total of 1,44,178 patients recovered in the same timespan, taking the number of recoveries to 1,29,53,821 with a recovery rate of 86per cent.
The Health Ministry said that a total of 13,56,133samples were tested in the last 24 hours.
So far, a total of 26,78,94,549 samples have been testedin the country.
According to the government data, a total of 12,30,007people were also vaccinated in the same period, taking the total inoculationcount to 12,38,52,566.