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Health

India records 31,521 new coronavirus cases

FILE PHOTO: Men wearing protective masks wait to get tested during a rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, December 9, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

India recorded 31,521 new coronavirus cases, data from the health ministry showed on Thursday.

The country has a total of 9.77 million infections, the second-highest in the world after the United States, but the daily tally has been slowly dropping since hitting a peak in September.

Deaths rose by 412, with the total now 141,772.

(Reporting by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by Kim Coghill)

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