New Delhi, August 15, 2021, SPA -- India has confirmed 36,083 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 32,192,576, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Sunday, according to Sputnik. The death toll from the disease has reached 431,225 people, with 493 new fatalities being recorded over the past day. More than 31.37 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 36.63 million patients. The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 206.68 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 4.35 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University. -- SPA 08:47 LOCAL TIME 05:47 GMT 0006 www.spa.gov.sa/w1600696