India's COVID scenario sees an upward trend again with 54,069 cases
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New Delhi: India's covid scenario is witnessing an upward trend as the country recorded 54,069 cases and 1,321 deaths on Thursday, according to the Union health ministry's update at 8 am.
On June 23, India had reported 53,186 new COVID-19 cases while 42,640 cases were recorded on June 22.
However, the daily recoveries have continued to outnumber the new infections for the 42nd consecutive day. India had crossed the mark of over three crore caseload of Covid on Wednesday.
This is also the seventh consecutive day in the last two months when the death toll has been below the 2,000-mark.
The overall tally of Covid-19 cases in the country now stands at 3,00,82,778. India has become the second country after the US to record more than three crore cases of Covid. India added one crore cases in the last 50 days.
Even though the daily cases and deaths in India seem to be in control, the country is now grappling with an increased spread of the Delta Plus variant, also known as the 'AY.1' variant or B.1.617.2.1.
Forty cases of the variant have been reported in India so far. The Union health ministry said on Wednesday that the variant has been "observed sporadically" in Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh.
It is also the 17th consecutive day when India reported less than one lakh new coronavirus cases.
The active cases have now come down below 8 lakh. The country has 6,27,057 active cases presently and has witnessed 3,91,981 deaths so far.
According to the Union Health Ministry, a total of 68,885 people have been discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the total discharge to 2,90,63,740 to date.
The Health Ministry said that a total of 30,16,26,028 people have been vaccinated so far in the country, including 64,89,599 who were administered vaccines in the last 24 hours.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 39,78,32,667 samples have been tested up to June 23 for Covid-19. Of these 18,59,469 samples were tested on Wednesday.