Coronavirus cases in India climbed to over 21.53 lakh after over 64,000 people tested positive for the infection in 24 hours. On Sunday, coronavirus cases tally in India stood at 21,53,011 after the country registered a single-day spike of 64,399 cases.

In the past 24 hours, 861 people succumbed to coronavirus, taking India's death toll to 43,379.

The coronavirus cases tally in India includes 628,747 active cases, comprising 29.20 per cent of the total caseload in the country. A total of 14,80,885 have recovered from the virus, according to the Ministry of Health.

This is the third consecutive day that the coronavirus cases have increased by more than 60,000. India had crossed the 20-lakh mark on Friday.

As many as 7,19,364 samples were tested on Saturday, the highest in a day. A total of 2,41,06,535 samples have been tested so far, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.

"India is performing around 500 tests for detection of coronavirus per minute and the per-day testing capacity has increased over five lakhs," scientist and ICMR media coordinator Lokesh Sharma said.

Of the 861 more deaths, 275 are from Maharashtra, 118 from Tamil Nadu, 97 from Andhra Pradesh and 93 from Karnataka.

Fifty-one more people died from the pathogen in West Bengal, 47 in Uttar Pradesh and 23 each in Punjab and Gujarat.

Delhi registered 16 more fatalities, followed by 15 in Madhya Pradesh, 13 in Bihar, 12 each in Telangana and Odisha, 11 in Rajasthan and 10 in Jammu and Kashmir.

Eight fatalities have been reported from Assam, seven from Haryana, five each from Puducherry and Uttarakhand, and four each from Jharkhand, Kerala and Tripura.

Two persons each succumbed to the contagion in Chhattisgarh and Goa, while Chandigarh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Manipur and Meghalaya have registered a fatality each.