Photos: India logs 31,118 single day Covid-19 cases; tally at 9.4 million

India’s overall coronavirus cases reached 94,62,809 including 4,35,603 active cases and 88,89,585 recoveries. With 482 new deaths, the cumulative toll has now mounted to 1,37,621. The Union Health Ministry announced these figures for the previous 24 hour period in its daily health update on December 1. With this, India has recorded 24 days of less than 50,000 cases of Covid-19 reported in a day. The last time daily new cases crossed the 50,000-threshold was on November 7. The health ministry also said that India continues to sustain its shedding of active cases which now make up just 4.60% of total cases.

Updated on: Dec 01, 2020 6:01 PM IST

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People wait their turns while a health care worker tests a person for Covid-19 infection at Deonar Maternity home in Mumbai on November 30. India added 31,118 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the previous day, which pushed the nationwide tally to 9,462,809, the Union Health Ministry’s bulletin said on December 1. (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)

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Delhi’s Sarojini Nagar market packed with visitors on November 29. While the spread of the infection has slowed down in the recent weeks, the Centre is concerned about states which maintain high caseloads of infection. A fresh set of guidelines to check the further spread of the coronavirus came into effect from December 1 and will remain in effect till December 31. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)

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A vendor waits for customers at a market in Hyderabad on November 27. The health ministry has also released measures to ensure compliance to Covid-appropriate behaviour in markets and recommended fines for not wearing masks or not following physical distancing, opening markets on alternate days and closing them if large number of coronavirus cases are reported along with other measures, HT reported. (Noah Seelam / AFP)

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Health workers screen people for tuberculosis and leprosy in Dharavi, Mumbai on December 1. New infections due to Covid-19 have declined steadily since the first week of October. A total 12,78,727 cases were reported in November, a decrease from October’s 18,71,498, accounting for about 13.51% of the total instances of infection in the country so far, PTI reported citing government data. (Rafiq Maqbool / AP)

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A vendor waits for customers at a weekly market in Chennai on November 27. India’s active caseload has further contracted to 4,35,603 over the previous 24 hours and their share in the total positive cases has shrunk to 4.60%, health ministry’s data showed. (Arun Sankar / AFP)

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Artists wearing face masks perform on a street open to only pedestrians during weekends in Bengaluru on November 28. 77.79% of the new cases are concentrated in 10 States and UTs at the moment. Maharashtra reported the maximum daily new cases over the last 24 hours, numbering 3,837. Delhi recorded 3,726 new cases while Kerala reported 3,382 new cases. (Aijaz Rahi / AP)

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Employees operate a filling machine inside a lab at the Serum Institute of India in Pune on November 30. The total number of Covid-19 tests conducted in India also crossed the 140 million mark on November 30. The first test to diagnose Covid-19 in the country was performed on January 23, and India performed over 900,000 tests on November 30. (Francis Mascarenhas / REUTERS)

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Relatives of a person who died of Covid-19 related complications, console each other at Vadaj Cemetery in Ahmedabad on November 29. India’s recovery rate from the disease is now bordering 94%. The health ministry on November 29 said that the country continues to have one of the lowest deaths per million globally at 99 per million presently. 482 new fatalities were attributed to the infection in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 1,37,621. (Ajit Solanki / AP)