India's COVID-19 cases top 3 million
Updated 13:19, 23-Aug-2020
CGTN

India's COVID-19 tally surpassed 3 million on Sunday, reaching 3,044,940, according to the latest data released by the federal health ministry.

The death toll due to the pandemic in the country also surged to 56,706.
As many as 69,239 new cases and 912 deaths were reported during the last 24 hours.

According to the data, there are still 707,668 active cases across India, and 2,280,566 people have been successfully cured and discharged from hospitals.

Over the past few weeks, the Indian government has been focusing on ramping up the testing of COVID-19 samples.

A total of 34,491,073 samples had been tested up to Friday, out of which 1,023,836 were tested on Friday alone, according to the latest data released by the Indian Council of Medical Research.

It was the first time more than one million samples were tested in a single day.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency