Surge In India's Daily Covid Deaths As Bihar, Kerala Clear Backlog

With the 2,796 deaths, a 615% rise from the deaths recorded on Saturday, India's death count has gone up to 4,73,326.

India reported 2,796 Covid-related deaths today, the highest single-day rise since July 2020, as Bihar carried out a reconciliation exercise of its Covid data, the health ministry said.

With the 2,796 deaths, India's death count has gone up to 4,73,326. On Saturday, India had recorded 391 deaths.

India had recorded a single-day rise of 3,998 fatalities on July 21 after Maharashtra carried out the 14th reconciliation exercise of its Covid data.

The Union health ministry said that of the 2,796 deaths, 2,426 were reconciled deaths that had been adjusted in the national COVID database. Kerala also cleared a backlog of 263 deaths.