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An average of 5,739 cases of dog bites were reported daily as of November 2022, shows data. This is a decline in the number of such instances since the pandemic.
The average rises if one includes pre-pandemic figures. India reported nearly 16 million cases of stray dog bites between 2019 and 2022 (Parliament data till November 2022), an average of over 10,000 cases daily.
