India again reports over 18K new cases

New Delhi, March 7 : Amid a worrying gradual but consistent increase in the number of single-day infections, India registered 18,711 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, similar to the level during mid-January, according to data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Sunday.
Sunday’s figure was an increase of 1,873 cases reported two days ago.
The last time India reported more than 18,000 single-day cases was in the later half of January.
As of Sunday, the country’s cumulative caseload has increased to 1,12,10,799.
However, a slight drop was recorded in number of deaths from previous day At least 100 fatalities were recorded in the last 24 hours against 108 reported a day before.