Coronavirus Cases in India: Global COVID-19 cases exceed 5 crore after 30-day spike. (File)
New Delhi:
With a jump of almost 45,000 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, India’s coronavirus tally touched the 85.5 lakh mark, government data shows. India also recorded 490 deaths linked to the viral disease in the 24-hour period taking its overall Covid death count to 1,26,611.
The 45,903 new infections in India were 0.5% higher than yesterday’s. In this period, almost 48,000 people also recovered from the viral disease. With this, more than 79 lakh people have recovered from COVID-19, and there are now a little over 5 lakh active cases of coronavirus.
India’s average daily case count has remained 45,000 for about two weeks now. Average daily deaths remained in the 480 to 490 range in this period with average daily testing of 8.5-9.5 lakh.
As the national case rise stagnates, onset of winter and pollution left Delhi grappling with a third wave of coronavirus – its most severe yet.
The national capital reported 7,745 new covid cases – its highest yet. This was the second time the daily count breached the 7,000-mark in Delhi, which also topped the state list of highest cases.
Delhi was followed by Maharashtra and Kerala with almost 5,500 cases each, West Bengal with almost 4,000 cases and Karnataka with a little more than 2,700 cases.
