India logs 2.86 lakh new cases in last 24hrs

India on Thursday reported 286,384 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, showed the latest data of the country's Health Ministry.

With the new cases, the coronavirus caseload in India rose to 40,371,500.

The positivity rate shot up from 16.16 percent to 19.59 percent while the weekly positivity rate stands at 17.75 percent.

Besides, 573 deaths due to the virus were reported in the same period took the total death toll to 491,700.

There are still 2,202,472 active COVID-19 cases in India despite a fall of 20,546 active cases during the last 24 hours.

A total of 37,677,328 people have been successfully cured and discharged from hospitals so far.

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