India records 60,753 fresh new COVID cases, death toll at 1647

New Delhi: After the peak of over 4.15 lakh daily cases on May 7, India's second wave is continuing to recede with 60,753 new cases of Covid recorded in the last 24 hours.

As per the data released by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Saturday, the is for the second consecutive day in the last two months that the death tally has come down below the 2,000-mark. It is also the 12th consecutive day when India has reported less than one lakh new coronavirus cases.

Saturday's cases are 1,727 less than that of Friday's when 62,480 people were detected Covid-19 positive.

On the other hand, the death toll on Saturday stands at 1,647 fatalities, 60 more than that of Friday's when 1,587 fatalities were reported, the lowest in over two months.

On June 15, India recorded 60,461 cases, the lowest since March 29.

The overall tally of Covid-19 cases in the country now stands at 2,98,23,546.

The active cases have come down below 10 lakh. The country has 7,60,019 active cases presently and has witnessed 3,85,137 deaths so far.

According to the Health Ministry, a total of 97,743 people have been discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the total discharge to 2,86,78,390 to date.

The Health Ministry said that a total of 27,23,88,783 people have been vaccinated so far in the country, including 33,00,085 who were administered vaccines in the last 24 hours.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 38,92,07,637 samples have been tested up to June 18 for Covid-19. Of these 19,02,009 samples were tested on Friday.

After recording the highest number of daily Covid-19 in the world for more than two-and-a-half months during the lethal second wave, India's average case count has dropped to second place with Brazil taking the dubious top spot again.

In the last seven days ending Thursday, Brazil registered 4,88,882, narrowly inching ahead of India's count of 4,88,626, as per data from worldometers.info. This was the first time since late March that the seven-day average of daily Covid cases in India has been overtaken by another country.

Meanwhile, the overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 177.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.84 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 177,753,055 and 3,849,115, respectively.