India sees lowest single-day spike of Covid-19 cases in 5 months

Commuters wearing protective face masks wait to board a suburban train after authorities resumed train services for vaccinated passengers amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, in Mumbai, India, August 17, 2021. - Reuters

NEW DELHI, Aug. 17 (Xinhua): India's Covid-19 tally rose to 32,250,679 on Tuesday, as 25,166 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, showed the federal health ministry's latest data.

It was the lowest single-day spike in the past 154 days, according to the ministry.

Besides, 437 deaths due to the pandemic since Monday morning took the total death toll to 432,079.

There are still 369,846 active cases in the country, a decrease of 12,101 during the past 24 hours.

A total of 31,448,754 people have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, out of which 36,830 were discharged during the past 24 hours.- Xinhua