New Delhi:

India recorded its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases with 69,878 new patients registered in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said this morning. The latest spike takes the total to 29,75,701 cases. About 22.22 lakh people have recovered so far.

The country, third worst-affected by the pandemic after the United States and Brazil, has been reporting the highest number of daily cases in the world for the last 18 days.

Across India, 55,794 Covid-linked deaths have been registered so far; 945 patients have died since yesterday, according to the official data.