NEW DELHI, India, July 30: India has registered more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours for the first time.
The record surge of 52,123 reported cases took the national total to 1,583,792 on Thursday.
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The Health Ministry also reported another 775 deaths in the past 24 hours, driving total fatalities up to 34,968.
The number of recoveries from the coronavirus in India has crossed 1 million.
India has reported the third most coronavirus cases in the world after the United States and Brazil.
The reported deaths from the virus in India, however, mark a far lower fatality rate than in the other two countries.
