Highest daily cases since the pandemic began India reported 1,03,558 fresh coronavirus infections on Monday, taking the cumulative caseload to 1,25,89,067, according to a report in the Scroll. The country saw 478 deaths due to the pandemic, taking the death toll to 1,65,101, according to central health ministry data. The active caseload is at 7,41,830, while the total recoveries have surged to 1,16,82,136. As many as 79.1 million shots have been administered since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Of these, 16,38,464 were given on Sunday. Read more here How can reinfection be determined? Researchers depend on genome analysis of the virus sample for conclusive evidence of reinfection, an explainer in The Indian Express said. But, virus samples for all infected people are not being collected for genome analysis as that would require enormous resources; genome analysis is a complicated procedure that needs a significant amount of time and effort. Samples from only a few randomly selected patients are sent for genome analysis. Therefore, when a person tests positive for a second time and has to be checked for reinfection, there is usually no genome sequence from the previous infection for comparison. Read more here