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India records 38,079 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, 560 deaths

| @indiablooms | Jul 17, 2021, at 03:26 pm

New Delhi: India recorded  38,079 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, as per data released by the Ministry of Health on Saturday.

The country is fearing a third wave of the pandemic might hit it soon.

The death toll due to the virus now stands at 413091 as 560 more people died in the past 24 hours.

India's Active Caseload currently stands at 4,24,025.

43,916 patients recovered from coronavirus infection during the last 24 hours.

Recovery Rate has increased to 97.31 percent.

Active cases constitute 1.36 percent of total cases.

Weekly Positivity Rate remains below 5 percent and currently stands at 2.10 percent.

Daily positivity rate is at 1.91 percent, less than 3 percent for 26 consecutive days.

India witnessed a deadly wave of the second wave of the pandemic earlier this year.

From oxygen shortage to unavailability of hospital beds, people struggled across the country following a sudden rise in the number of COVID-19 patients.

The increase in deaths due to the virus also left the crematoriums and burial grounds overwhelmed.

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