India recorded 21,821 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, according to Union health ministry update on Thursday. With this, the total number of cases has reached 10,266,674.
The number of active cases has further gone down to 257,656, while 9,860,280 patients have been cured or discharged from hospitals, according to health ministry update at 8 am.
The disease claimed 299 lives in the said period, which took the death toll to 1,48,738, according to health ministry.