India's daily COVID-19 caseload Saturday increased to 1,132, in comparison to the number of Saturday (1,082), officials said. According to Federal health ministry data released on Sunday morning, 1,132 new cases of COVID-19 were reported, taking the total tally to 44,660,579 in the country. With the reporting of the fresh cases, India's active caseload currently stands at 14,839. The country also logged 14 more related deaths, pushing the overall death toll to 530,500 since the beginning of the pandemic, the ministry said.

The ministry said so far 44,115,240 people have been cured and discharged from hospitals, of whom 1,479 were newly discharged. Delhi recorded 68 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday with a positivity rate of 1.37 per cent, and one more person died due to the viral disease, according to the data shared by the health department. With these new cases, Delhi's COVID-19 tally has risen to 20,06,511 while the death toll due to the infection rose to 26,512.

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