India has registered a record spike in daily tally with over 2 lakh new COVID-19 infections, according to the Union Health Ministry Thursday morning data. A total of 2,00,739 new COVID-19 cases and 1,038 new fatalities were registered in a span of 24 hours.  The country has 14,71,877 active cases, comprising 10.46 per cent of the total tally, and the recovery rate has dropped to 88.31 per cent.

Battling the fourth wave of the pandemic, Delhi recorded 17,282 cases on Wednesday, the highest single-day surge since the pandemic began. With continuous, unprecedented surge over the past few days, Delhi has now become the worst-affected city in the country, leaving Mumbai far behind in the daily cases. Delhi had recorded 10,774 cases on April 11, and since then its daily tally has been on the rise. It registered 13,468 cases on Tuesday. Delhi reported 104 fatalities on Wednesday.