NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India added 53,476 COVID-19 infections overnight, the highest daily rise since Oct. 23, the health ministry data showed on Thursday.
India has 11.8 million COVID-19 cases, the third-highest amount behind the United States and Brazil.
The country reported 251 new deaths, taking the overall tally to 160,692, the data showed.
(Reporting by Neha Arora and; Nallur Sethuraman; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)