More than 66.85 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,538,379 have died, according to a Reuters tally. India reported 26,567 new coronavirus infections, data from the health ministry showed on Tuesday, the lowest daily increase since July 10, according to the tally. Daily cases have been falling in India since hitting a peak in September. The country has 9.7 million cases, second-highest caseload in the world after the United States. Deaths rose by 385, the health ministry said, with the total now at 140,958. Russia confirmed 26,097 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours on Tuesday, including 5,232 in Moscow, pushing the national tally to 2,515,009. Authorities said 562 people had died overnight, taking the official death toll to 44,159. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 14,054 to 1,197,709 and the reported death toll rose by 423 to 19,342, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Tuesday. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
