Coronavirus: For the first time in 28 days deaths have fallen below 1,000 for the 24-hour period.
New Delhi:
India’s COVID-19 tally has crossed the 61-lakh mark with 70,589 new coronavirus cases and 776 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, according to Health Ministry data released this morning. The country now has 61,45,292 total cases of coronavirus.
For the first time in 28 days deaths have fallen below 1,000, the government data shows. A total of 96,318 people have lost their lives to COVID-19 till now. The country’s fatality rate has dipped marginally to 1.5 per cent.
According to the government data, with 84,877 more people having fought off COVID-19, the number of total recoveries crossed 51 lakh to stand at 51,01,398. The overall recovery rate in the country is 83 per cent.
The country now has 9.47 lakh active cases of coronavirus. Its daily positivity rate was 6.1 per cent as the Health Ministry conducted 11,42,811 tests in the last 24 hours, over 7,09,394 a day earlier. Till now, the country has conducted more than 7.3 crore tests.
India remains the second worst-affected country by the coronavirus pandemic, next only to the United States which has more than 71.48 lakh cases with 20 lakh deaths. Global coronavirus infections have soared past 3.35 crore.
COVID-19, which broke out in China’s Wuhan less than a year ago, has claimed the lives of more than 10 lakh people across the world. The World Health Organization has warned that the global death count could more than double to two million before a successful vaccine is widely used – and could be even higher without concerted action to curb the pandemic.
