New Delhi, August 03:

India’s daily tally of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) climbed to 31,726,507 after 30,549 fresh cases were registered in the last 24 hours, according to the Union ministry of health and family welfare. As many as 422 patients succumbed to the viral disease and 38,887 recovered in the same period, taking the cumulative count of deaths and recoveries to 425,195 and 30,896,354 respectively. The active cases stand at 404,958, a fall from 413,718 cases on Monday.

Tuesday’s case count in India is 9,585 less than that of Monday’s when 40,134 people were detected Covid-19 positive. On the other hand, the toll on Tuesday is same as that of Monday’s.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 471,294,789 samples have been tested for Covid-19 till now of which 1,649,295 were tested in the last 24 hours.