"death-toll"

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for the most number of cases with 56, followed by Rangareddy (26) and Medchal Malkajgiri (13) and Karimnagar (13), it said in a bulletin

According to data released by the Ministry of Health, the new fatality figure was the second highest single-day spike since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country in February 2020, reports Xinhua news agency.

The death toll increased to 1,47,901 with 279 new fatalities

The European Union is under massive pressure to approve potential vaccines after Britain and the United States began rolling out a drug produced by Pfizer and BioNtech.

It said 27,728 new coronavirus cases were registered, a figure close to the daily record of nearly 30,000 infections reported on Friday.

India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and 40 lakh on September 5.

As per Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, the death toll stands at 17 so far, with 709 injured.

Mexico has an extremely low testing rate, and officials had previously acknowledged that many people didn't get tested or their tests were mishandled.

In the past 24 hours, Argentina confirmed 451 new deaths from COVID-19.

"The active cases of coronavirus infection dropped below eight lakh for the first time in one-and-half months."

The total caseload of the top three countries combined accounted for more than half of the global cases, according to the tally.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease have crossed 60 lakh. India's coronavirus cases jumped from 10 lakh to 20 lakh in 21 days.

The COVID-19 case fatality rate was recorded at 1.54 per cent.

The total recoveries have surged to 59,06,069 pushing the recovery rate to 85.52 percent, while there are 8,93,592 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country.

The authorities had carried out a total of 3,702,607 tests since the outbreak of the pandemic, including 28,280 in the last 24 hours.

The total number of active cases was 570 now. The city reported 59 fresh cases in the last 24 hours.

The total recoveries have surged to 54,27,706, while there are 9,44,996 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country.