A Covid-19 coronavirus patient breathes with the help of oxygen.

Gulf Today Report

India on Sunday reported its lowest daily rise in new coronavirus infections in 46 days at 165,553 cases during the previous 24 hours, while deaths rose by 3,460, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said.

This is for the fourth time since April 12 that India has recorded less than 200,000 cases of coronavirus. On May 25, India had recorded 1.96 lakh cases of COVID, 1,86,364 cases on May 28 and 1,73,790 cases on May 29.

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The South Asian nation's tally of infections now stands at 27.9 million, with the death toll has reached 325,972, health ministry data showed.

The fatalities have also remained below 4,000 for four consecutive days.

India's overall tally of COVID-19 cases now stands at 27,894,800 with 2,114,508 active cases and 325,972 deaths so far.

According to the Health Ministry, a total of 276,309 people have been discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the total discharge to 25,454,320 from COVID till date.

Relatives perform the last rites for their loved one who died due to the Covid-19.

The Health Ministry said that a total of 212,066,614 people have been vaccinated so far in the country, including 3,035,749 who were administered vaccines in the last 24 hours.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 3,431,83,748 samples have been tested up to May 29 for COVID-19. Of these 2,063,839 samples were tested on Saturday.

In the last 19 days, India has recorded over 70,000 deaths. On May 24, India crossed a grim milestone of three-lakh deaths due to the coronavirus infections, thus becoming world's third country after the US and Brazil to cross three-lakh deaths.

Funeral pyres of victims burn at an open crematorium set up at a granite quarry on the outskirts of Bengaluru.

India registered record deaths due to COVID exactly a week ago with 4,529 deaths — the highest number of fatalities from COVID infection in any country in a day since the coronavirus outbreak was reported in China's Wuhan in December 2019.

It surpassed 4,468 deaths in the US on January 12, and earlier 4,211 in Brazil on April 6.

After battling a brutal second wave for weeks, fresh COVID cases came down below the three lakh-mark for the first time on May 17 after touching record high of 414,188 on May 7.