An Indian health worker collects nasal swab samples at a COVID-19 testing center in Gauhati, Assam state, India, Sunday, July 12, 2020. India is the world’s third worst-affected country by the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
More than 100,000 people in India have tested positive in just the past four days, said the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday.
The country recorded 28,498 new cases and 553 new deaths in the last 24 hours, said the ministry. That raises the country’s total to 906,752 cases and 23,727 deaths.
Not all these cases are active: More than 571,000 have recovered from the virus, leaving 311,565 cases still active.
More than 12 million tests have been conducted nationwide, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.
