Passengers at Amritsar airport.  |  Photo Credit: ANI
New Delhi: As many as 125 passengers of an international chartered flight from Italy have tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival at Amritsar airport, reports ANI.
This comes amid the country witnessing an unprecedented spike in new coronavirus infections. A total of 90,928 new COVID-19 cases were reported in India in the last 24 hours, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) earlier today.
With new infections, the country’s daily COVID positivity rate stands at 6.43 per cent, while the weekly rate has surged to 3.47 per cent. The COVID-19 death toll in India has risen 4,82,876 as 325 more patients succumbed to the deadly virus yesterday.
The active caseload in the country stands at 2,85,401. As many as 19,206 patients recovered from COVID-19 during this period, taking the total number of recoveries in India to 3,43,41,009.
(More details awaited…)