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Covid-19: India inches closer to 14,000 cases in highest single day spike

In the last 24 hours there have been 1,455 more cases, taking India's total tally close to 14,000

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India received the much-awaited five lakh rapid COVID-19 testing kits from China. PTI

Ruchika Chitravanshi New Delhi
Covid-19 cases jumped to 13,835 and 452 deaths with India recording a new record in highest single day jump in confirmed cases, even as the health ministry claimed a 40 per cent decline in the growth rate of Covid-19 cases since the lockdown was imposed.

In the last 24 hours there have been 1,455 more cases, taking India’s total tally close to 14,000.

India’s average growth of Covid-19 cases between March 15 and March 31 was 2 per cent. Post the lockdown, in the last two weeks, the growth rate has come down to 1.2 per cent. “It is a