India reported 69,921 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, the lowest daily jump in six days, taking its overall caseload to 3.69 million. 

India, the world’s second most populous nation, has been reporting the highest single-day caseload in the world every day for more than three weeks, according to a Reuters tally, and is the third worst-hit country behind the United States and Brazil. 

The death toll in India from COVID-19 rose by 819 on Tuesday to 65,288. 

Also, former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, who had tested positive for COVID-19 this month, died on Monday after weeks in hospital. He was 84. 

New Delhi’s Army Hospital (Research And Referral) said earlier in the day that Mukherjee had gone into a septic shock after coming down with a lung infection. His medical condition had declined since Sunday, it added. 

A veteran politician who served as foreign and finance minister in previous administrations led by the now-opposition Congress party, Mukherjee had friends on both sides of the political divide. 

“He has left an indelible mark on the development trajectory of our nation,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter, posting a picture of him touching Mukherjee’s feet in reverence. 

“A scholar par excellence, a towering statesman, he was admired across the political spectrum and by all sections of society.”