New Delhi, July 16, 2021, SPA -- India confirmed 38,949 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 31,026,829, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday, according to Sputnik. The death toll from the disease reached 412,531 people, with 542 new fatalities being recorded over the past day. More than 30​​​.18 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak. India comes second in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, following the United States with more than 33.97 million patients. The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 188.86 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 4.06 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University. --SPA 11:41 LOCAL TIME 08:41 GMT 0007 www.spa.gov.sa/w1586491