India sees biggest spike of nearly 3L COVID cases and 2,023 deaths

NEW DELHI: It has been a week since India reported over 2 lakh new COVID-19 cases on a daily basis since April 15. India on Wednesday hit another record high of 2,95,041 new cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the country’s overall tally reached 1.56 crore, according to the health ministry’s data released on Wednesday. In the same time span, India also reported a record number of 2,023 deaths. The daily deaths crossed 2,000 for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic last year, taking the total death toll so far in the country to 1,82,553. For the last seven days, India has been reporting over 2 lakh cases daily cases from across the country. A total of 16,74,57 patients recovered in the same time span, taking the number of recoveries to 1,32,76,039.