India reported 1,581 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, a tad higher than the previous day, though the number of active cases in the country fell below 25,000. The fresh tally takes the total number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the country to 4,30,10, 971. Some 33 deaths were reported because of the infectious disease, raising the number of COVID-19 fatalities to 5,16,543.