UPDATE - Number Of COVID-19 Cases In India Rises By 34,973 Over Past 24 Hours - Health Ministry

NEW DELHI (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 10th September, 2021) India has confirmed 34,973 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 33,174,954, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday.

The death toll from the disease has reached 442,009 people, with 260 new fatalities being recorded over the past day.

More than 32.34 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak.

A day earlier, the country confirmed 43,263 new coronavirus cases, with 338 fatalities.

India comes second in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, following the United States with more than 40.6 million patients.

The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 223.12 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 4.6 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.