New Delhi, January 28, 2021, SPA -- India has confirmed 11,666 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 10,701,193, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday, according to Sputnik. The death toll from the disease has reached 153,847 people, with 123 new fatalities being recorded over the past day. More than 10.37 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 25.59 million COVID-19 patients. The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. To date, more than 100.8 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 2.17 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University. --SPA 12:32 LOCAL TIME 09:32 GMT 0004 www.spa.gov.sa/w1495054