India remains the second worst-affected country by the coronavirus pandemic with more than 63 lakh cases.
New Delhi:
India recorded 86,821 new coronavirus cases and 1,181 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking its COVID-19 tally past the 63-lakh mark, according to the Health Ministry data released this morning.
The country now has 63,12,585 cases of coronavirus, including 9,40,705 active cases, and 52.7 lakh recoveries, the government data shows. A total of 98,678 people have lost their lives to COVID-19 till now.
At 85,376, India recorded were fewer one-day recoveries than new cases. The overall recovery rate in the country is 83.5 per cent.
Its daily positivity rate was 6.1 per cent as the Health Ministry conducted over 14 lakh tests in the last 24 hours, more than the 10 lakh tests done a day earlier. Till now, the country has conducted more than 7.6 crore tests.
According to the Health Ministry data, India’s average Covid testing has been increased to conduct more than 15 lakh tests per day, and has exceeded the 140/day/million tests as advised by the World Health Organisation by more than 5 times.
A total of 14 lakh tests were done in the last 24 hours and 7.6 crore tests have been done in India till now.
“High levels of testing lead to early identification, prompt isolation and effective treatment of COVID-19. This has resulted in sustained low fatality rate,” the Health Ministry tweeted.
The country’s fatality rate stands at 1.6 per cent.
Kerala and the four worst-hit states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu reported the highest one-day increases of any state in the past 24 hours. Together these five states reported 47,795 or around 55 per cent of all new cases.
India remains the second worst-affected country by the coronavirus pandemic, next only to the United States which has more than 72 lakh lakh cases with 21 lakh deaths. Global coronavirus infections have soared past 3.4 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.
