India recorded 3.545 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours ending at 8 am on Friday, according to the Union Ministry of Health Family Welfare’s latest update.
The active caseload presently stands at 19,688.
Covid could have killed as many as 47.4 lakh people in India in 2020 and 2021, either directly due to infection or through its indirect impact, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.
The figure, disputed by India, is nearly ten times the country’s official Covid death toll of 4.81 lakh at the end of 2021.
Meanwhile, the number of infections in China’s financial hub of Shanghai has been on a “continuous downward trend” since April 22, the city’s vice major Wu Qing said on Friday.
“Currently, our city’s epidemic prevention and control situation is steadily improving, and the epidemic has come under effective control,” he told a news conference, according to Reuters.