Coronavirus LIVE Updates: India Sees Record Spike of Nearly 67,000 Cases, 942 Deaths in 24 Hrs; Vaishno Devi Yatra May Not Resume After Aug 16

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Coronavirus LIVE Updates: India Sees Record Spike of Nearly 67,000 Cases, 942 Deaths in 24 Hrs; Vaishno Devi Yatra May Not Resume After Aug 16

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Coronavirus LIVE Updates: India Sees Record Spike of Nearly 67,000 Cases, 942 Deaths in 24 Hrs; Vaishno Devi Yatra May Not Resume After Aug 16

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Coronavirus LIVE Updates: With a record single-day increase of 66,999 cases, India's COVID-19 tally mounted to 23,96,637 on today, while the number of patients who have recovered from the disease surged to 16,95,982, pushing the recovery rate to 70.77 per cent in the country, according to the Union health ministry. The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 47,033 with 942 people succumbing to the disease in the last 24 hours, health ministry data updated at 8 am showed. The case fatality rate in the country has declined to 1.96 per cent. There are 6,53,622 active COVID-19 cases in the country presently, which accounts for 27.27 per cent of its total caseload. India crossed the 20-lakh mark in terms of COVID-19 cases on August 7.

The much-awaited pilgrimage to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Cave Shrine may not resume even after August 16 when the government has issued guidelines for reopening of all the religious places as around 11 people have been tested positive at Bhawan in Trikuta Hills of Reasi district. “In total 11 people have been tested positive for COVID-19 at Bhawan,” official sources here said. They said that three people tested positive on Tuesday and eight, including some of the priests, tested positive on Wednesday.

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