India Covid-19 death toll rises to 1,981 as total cases reach 59,662


Officials stand next to buses designated to transport passengers of an Air India Ltd. repatriation flight from Singapore, to quarantine centers, at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, on May 8. India is deploying commercial jets, military transport planes and naval warships to bring back hundreds of thousands of citizens stranded across the world, in what’s set to be the biggest-ever peacetime repatriation exercise in history. - Bloomberg

NEW DELHI: India's federal health ministry Saturday morning (May 9) reported 95 more deaths and 3,320 new Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases since Friday in the country, taking the number of deaths to 1,981 and total cases to 59,662.

On Friday morning the number of Covid-19 cases in the country was 56,342, and the death toll was 1,886.

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