coronavirus cases in the country registered an increase for the fourth consecutive day, according to the ministry's data updated at 8 am.
An increase of 2,032 cases was recorded in the active COVID-19 tally in a span of 24 hours. Yesterday, India recorded 41,649 fresh Covid cases.
On July 30, the country logged 44,230 cases. On July 27, India had recorded less than 30,000 fresh Covid-19 cases (29,689) after 132 days.
And thereafter, the daily coronavirus cases have continued to scale up. Also, 17,89,472 Covid tests to detect the infection were carried out on Saturday, taking the total number of such tests conducted so far in the country to 46.82 crore, while the daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.34%.