India on July 18 reported a spike of 34,884 COVID cases and 671 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the caseload to 10,38,716. The number of active cases have now shot up to 3,58,692 whereas 6,53,751 people have come over the disease so far. The number of deaths due to coronvirus is 26,273. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, a total of 3,61,024 samples were tested for coronavirus on July 17.
