India has reported 26,964 new COVID-19 cases and 383 deaths in the last 24 hours with Kerala reporting 15,768 cases and 214 deaths on Tuesday. This comes a day after the country reported 26,115 cases and 252 deaths. However, India's active caseload stood at 3,01,989, the lowest in 186 days. The COVID-19 death toll in the country reached 4,45,768.