Amid acute resource crunch to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, India recorded 3,57,229 lakh new COVID-19 positive cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the nationwide confirmed case tally to 2,02,82,833 cases, according to the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday morning.
The country also reported 3,20,289 more recoveries and 3,449 more deaths in the last 24 hours. With it, India’s COVID-19 recovered cases totalled 1,66,13,292 while the total number of COVID-19-related deaths rose to 2,22,408.
With record surge in daily COVID-19 cases, India now has 34,47,133 COVID-19 active cases.
India remains the country with the second highest number of COVID-19 cases and is facing a chaotic situation amid the reports of lack of oxygen, hospital beds and medicines to treat the patients even as the vaccination drive is being pushed full swing.
Delhi, on Monday, began its vaccination drive for age above 18 years free of cost. However, vaccination for the same category is yet to take off in Northeast state Manipur as the state awaits the arrival of more vaccine doses.
Manipur has also been witnessing unprecendented rise in COVID-19 positive cases daily. It recorded 362 new positive cases on Monday. The state's total tally surged to 32,523 on Monday, according to the state health department.
Meanwhile, large consignments of Covid aid, including oxygen concentrators, ventilators, and other medical equipment, have arrived in India from different countries, the External Affairs Ministry said Tuesday.
