India coronavirus cases: More than 32,000 patients have died so far.

New Delhi:

India has crossed 14 lakh coronavirus cases after a record spike of 49,931 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said this morning, adding that 708 COVID-19 patients died since yesterday, taking the total number of Covid-linked deaths to 32,771. The country’s coronavirus tally stood at 14,35,453 this morning. 

More than 9.1 lakh patients have recovered so far and the recovery rate stood at 63.92 per cent this morning. The positivity rate –  – percentage of patients who have tested positive for coronavirus  – stood at 9.68 per 
cent. 

The country – which has a population of about 130 crores – has tested over 1.68 crore samples so far.  The highest number of samples – 5,15,472 – were tested on Sunday.