MUMBAI (Reuters) – India recorded 31,521 new coronavirus cases, data from the health ministry showed on Thursday.
The country has a total of 9.77 million infections, the second-highest in the world after the United States, but the daily tally has been slowly dropping since hitting a peak in September.
Deaths rose by 412, with the total now 141,772.
(Reporting by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by Kim Coghill)