India reported a spike of 54,044 new coronavirus cases long with 717

new deaths, according to the Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday

morning. With this, the total number of coronavirus cases in India now

stands at 76,51,108 and the death toll has reached 1,15,914.India

also witnessed a dip of 8448 in its active cases in the last 24 hours.

As of Wednesday morning, there are 7,40,090 active cases of coronavirus

in India.For the fifth consecutive day, the active cases of coronavirus remained below 8 lakh in India.According

to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 9,72,00,379 samples have been tested

up to October 20 with 10,83,608 samples being tested on Tuesday, as

reported by news agency PTI.However, a top ICMR official on

Tuesday warned that a person may get reinfected with Covid-19 if the

antibodies against the infection diminish in the body in five months'

time after recovery."We are looking at the data as to how many

people got infected, then turned negative and then tested positive

again," PTI quoted ICMR Director General Balaram Bhargava.