India registered 2,73,810 fresh cases of COVID-19 and 1,619 casualties in the past 24 hours.
This is the highest single-day spike in terms of cases and deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic, according to the data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Monday.
The fresh addition took the total tally to 1,50,61,919 while the death toll soared to 1,78,769.
