New Delhi, April 19, 2021, SPA -- India has registered 273,810 new COVID-19 cases within the past 24 hours, making it the largest daily increase to date, the health ministry said on Monday, according Sputnik News Agency. The country's death toll has increased by over 1,600 fatalities, reaching a total of more than 178,000. India comes second in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, over 15 million, following the United States with more than 31.66 million patients. --SPA 12:19 LOCAL TIME 09:19 GMT 0013 www.spa.gov.sa/w1545467