NEW DELHI (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th August, 2021) India has confirmed 46,164 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 32,558,530, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday.
The death toll from the disease has reached 436,365 people, with 607 new fatalities being recorded over the past day.
More than 31.78 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed 37,593 new coronavirus cases, with 648 fatalities.
India comes second in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, following the United States with more than 38.22 million patients.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 213.85 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 4.46 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
