India’s daily tally of Covid-19 declined slightly on Friday as 2,259 new infections were recorded in the last 24 hours. The total number of cases in the country since the onset of the pandemic in 2020 has now climbed to 4,31,31,822, according to the health ministry’s dashboard. In the last 24 hours, 20 Covid patients died, and 2,614 recovered, taking the cumulative count of deaths and recoveries to 5,24,323 and 4,25,92,455 respectively.
