NEW DELHI (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th August, 2020) India has confirmed 69,652 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 2,836,925, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday.
The death toll from the disease has reached 53,866 people, with 977 new fatalities being recorded over the past day. More than 2.09 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak.
India comes third in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, following the United States and Brazil.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. To date, more than 22.3 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 786,000 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
