NEW DELHI, June 20 (NNN-UNI) – India’s federal health ministry said this morning that, 375 new deaths, due to COVID-19, besides fresh 14,516 positive cases, were reported during the past 24 hours across the country.
It took the number of deaths to 12,948 and total cases to 395,048.
This is the highest single day spike in terms of number of new COVID-19 cases in the country so far.
On Friday morning, the number of COVID-19 cases in the country was 380,532, and the death toll 12,573.
According to ministry officials, so far 213,831 people have been discharged from hospitals after showing improvement.
The number of active cases in the country right now is 168,269.