India added record 1,133 virus-related deaths in 24 hours, till Tuesday morning, Health Ministry data showed. India also added 75,809 coronavirus infections in this duration. Though the daily cases saw a decline — India was reporting over 90,000 cases for two consecutive days, the country’s Covid deaths number today is the highest so far. India is currently second-most affected nation, has reached 42,80,442. About 8.83 lakh cases in the country are active (20.9 per cent of the total cases) and the recovery rate stood at 77.6 per cent this morning.
