India recorded 208,921 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. With this, the nation’s tally of COVID-19 cases increased to 27,157,795. There are currently 249,5591 active cases in the country.

On Monday, India recorded 4,157 COVID-19 deaths, which took the death toll to 311,388. 

A total of 295,955 people recovered on Monday, taking the tally of recovered COVID-19 cases in the country to 24,350,816.

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2,217,320 samples for COVID-19 were tested across India in the past 24 hours, the Indian Council of Medical Research said on Tuesday. As of May 25, as many as 33,48,11,496 samples for COVID-19 have been tested across India.

The nation kicked off its mass vaccination drive against COVID-19 on January 16 and as of May 25, over 196 million people have received at least the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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India administered its first foreign-made vaccine dose of Russia’s Sputnik V on May 14. The country is now administering three COVID-19 vaccines, including Covaxin and Covishield.