India reports 35,342 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours

Reuters
FILE PHOTO: Patients are treated at classroom turned COVID-19 care facility on outskirts of Mumbai

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India reported on Friday 35,342 new COVID-19 cases, the federal health ministry said.

The country's tally of infections now stands at 31.26 million, health ministry data showed.

(Reporting by Shivani Singh in Bengaluru and Shilpa Jamkhandikar in Mumbai; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)