NEW DELHI: India reported 2,09,918 new Covid-19 cases, 959 deaths and 2,62,628 recoveries in the last 24 hours.
Amid the Covid-19 third wave, India completed two years since the first coronavirus case was reported in the country.
Since then, India has battled three waves of Covid-19 and its seven mutated variants, many of which turned out to be lethal, India Today has said.
So far, the country has recorded 4,10,92,522 cases and 4,94,091 deaths due to Covid-19 and its variants.
Last week, WHO said that the weekly number of Covid-19 cases in the world was recorded at 21 million, which is the highest since the beginning of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the Union Home Ministry has also extended the existing Covid-19 restrictions till February 28 in view of the wave of infections driven by the Omicron variant.
(With inputs from India Today)
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