India sees big jump in Covid deaths, PM worried

13 July 2021, 6:34 pm

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a meeting with US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo during the G20 Osaka Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

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Amid warnings over a third wave, India saw a big jump in daily Covid deaths as Madhya Pradesh revised its official data and logged 1,478 deaths, taking India’s count to 2,020. But the country’s daily rise in fresh cases is the lowest in four months.

India today recorded 32,906 new coronavirus infections, taking total tally of Covid-19 cases to 30,907,282, according to the Union Health Ministry update.

The death toll climbed to 41,07,84 with 2,020 fresh fatalities in the last 24 hours.

This is the 35th consecutive day when India reported less than one lakh new coronavirus cases.

The active cases have now come down below 5 lakh. The country has 4,32,778 active cases presently.

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