India's federal health ministry on Sunday morning reported 551 new deaths from COVID-19 and 28,637 new cases during the past 24 hours across the country.
This took the number of deaths to 22,674 and the total infections to 849,553.
This is said to be the highest single day spike in the number of fresh cases in the country so far.
On Saturday morning the number of COVID-19 cases in the country was 820,916, and the death toll stood at 22,123.
According to ministry officials, so far 534,621 people have been discharged from hospitals after showing improvement.