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After registering more than 30,000 coronavirus cases daily in the past few days, India recorded on Monday 27,254 new cases and 219 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the total to 33.26 million while deaths have risen to 442,874, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday.

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India has recorded 28,591 new cases and 338 deaths on Sunday. The number of active cases also registered a decline, the health ministry said.

The health ministry said the country's total COVID-19 cases have reached 33.03 million.

A man gets his body temperature checked at a screening centre.

Amid a spike in COVID cases in Kerala, the Goa government late on Sunday night imposed fresh restrictions on students and workforce from the Southern state who are visiting Goa.

According to the new list of restrictions, students and workers coming into Goa from Kerala, will be subject to institutional quarantine, which will be facilitated by managements of the educational institutions and offices or factories respectively.

"Further, in case of a person coming from Kerala, entry will be allowed with a negative RT-PCR report with following additional conditions.

"The students/employees coming from Kerala shall be subject to institutional quarantine of five days. The arrangements for the quarantine for students will be done by the administrators/principals of educational institutions," an order issued by the state administration late on Sunday said.

Deaths rose by 219, taking the toll to 440,752.

The Telangana government will launch a special drive to administer COVID-19 vaccines to 3 lakh people daily in an effort to cover 1.38 crore people who have still not taken a single dose.

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has directed senior officials of the medical and health department to carry out the special drive.

He said since the production of COVID vaccine in the country has increased qualitatively, there is a possibility of the state getting its required supply.

The Chief Minister said though the pandemic is in total control in the state, the special drive of the vaccination should be taken up so that people do not suffer in the future due to COVID-19.