Indiain the last 24 hours reported 2,61,500 fresh Covid cases, the highestsingle-day spike ever, taking the country's overall Covid tally to 1,47,88,109,according to the Health Ministry data released on Sunday morning.
Asmany as 1,501 people died of Covid in the last 24 hours, taking the country'sdeath toll to 1,77,150 so far. The daily active cases tally rose to 18,01,316.
Meanwhile,this is the fourth consecutive day that the country has registered over twolakh Covid cases. India recorded 2, 34,692 cases on Saturday, 2, 00,739 and 2,17,353 cases on Thursday and Friday respectively.
Atotal of 1,38,423 patients recovered in the same time span, taking the numberof recoveries to 1,28,09,643 with a recovery rate of 86.62 per cent.
TheHealth Ministry said that a total of 15,66,394 samples were tested in the last24 hours.
Sofar, a total of 26,65,38,416 samples have been tested in the country.
Accordingto the government data, a total of 26,84,956 people were also vaccinated in thesame period, taking the total inoculation count to 12,26,22,590.
Underliningthe alarming rise in the daily number of active cases and a sharp growth indeaths, Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Saturday said the wideninggap between the daily new cases and the daily recoveries reflects that theinfection is spreading at a much faster rate than recoveries.