NEW DELHI (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd September, 2021) India has confirmed 31,923 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having surpassed 33,563,421 million, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday.
The death toll from the disease has reached 446,050 people, with 383 new fatalities being recorded over the past day.
More than 32.81 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed 26,964 new coronavirus cases, with 383 fatalities.
India comes second in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, following the United States with more than 42.54 million patients.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 230.05 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 4.71 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
