NEW DELHI: India witnessed close to 9,000 new cases on Wednesday as the total case count of coronavirus mounted to 2,07,615.
With 8,909 new cases and 217 fatalities reported in the last 24 hours, India is now poised at the seventh place on the world tally table with just 25,000 cases behind Italy. Of the total cases 1,01,497 are active and 1,00,303 have been cured and discharged while 5,815 have died from the disease. The recovery rate in the country stood at 48.31 per cent while the fatality rate docked at 2.8 per cent, revealed data of the Health Ministry. (IANS)