New Delhi, March 25, 2021, SPA -- India has confirmed 53,476 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 11,787,534, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday, according to Sputnik News Agency. The death toll from the disease has reached 160,692 people, with 251 new fatalities being recorded over the past day. More than 11​​​.23 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak. India comes third in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, following the United States and Brazil, with more than 30 million and 12.22 million COVID-19 patients, respectively. The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 124.72 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 2.74 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University. --SPA 12:18 LOCAL TIME 09:18 GMT 0010 www.spa.gov.sa/w1530492