India sees dip in infections, records 366,000 cases with 3,754 deaths

Witnessing a decline, India on Monday recorded 366,161 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours with 3,754 fatalities, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.

On Sunday, India recorded 403,000 cases for the fifth time after 1 May. On Friday, India recorded the highest ever 414,188 cases.

In the past 18 days India’s daily Covid tally has risen by over three lakh cases and over 3,000 casualties have been reported for the last 12 days.

India’s total tally of Covid-19 cases now stands at 26,662,575 with 3,745,237 active cases and a total of 246,116 deaths so far.

According to the Health Ministry, a total of 353,818 people have been discharged in the last 24 hours, while 18,671,222 people have been cured from Covid till date.

The Health Ministry said that a total of 170,176,703 people have been vaccinated so far in the country, including 689,652, who were administered vaccines in the last 24 hours.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 303,750,077 samples have been tested up to 10 May for Covid-19. Of these 1,474,606 samples were tested on Sunday.