Coronavirus Cases in India: Daily cases have fallen from a peak of almost 1,00,000 in mid-September.
New Delhi:
The downward trend in India’s coronavirus cases continues as 55,342 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s Covid count to over 71.75 lakh, according to data shared by the Ministry of Health this morning. This is the first time since August 18 (55,079) that India has reported around 55,000 cases in one day, and the second day when the total of new infections was less than 70,000 since September’s surge of around 90,000 cases. per day. With 77,760 new recoveries, active cases have been further reduced to 8.38 lakh. The total number of deaths associated with the viral infection skyrocketed to 1,09,856 with 706 people succumbing to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
Here are the top 10 updates on coronavirus cases:
-
Nearly 62.2 lakhs people have beaten COVID-19 so far, government data shows, bringing India’s recovery rate to 86.8%.
-
The Covid death rate in India, which has reported between 800 and 900 deaths per day since the beginning of August, is 1.5%.
-
India’s daily positivity rate stood at 5.2 percent when the government tested 10.7 lakhs of people on Monday. So far a total testing of Rs 8.8 million has been conducted. With an average of around 9 lakh of tests per week for the last month, India’s average weekly positivity rate has dropped from 8.4% to 6.3%.
-
Although Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu continued to dominate the list of states with a maximum number of daily cases, their number of daily cases has been significantly reduced with the exception of West Bengal (3,583). The eastern state has been reporting its highest percentage increase in cases in 24 hours over the past fortnight. Together, these states account for 52.5 percent of all cases in the country.
-
The highest number of deaths was recorded in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, which together accounted for almost 57% of all deaths.
-
In the last four months, more than 18,006 tons of COVID-19 biomedical waste have been generated, and Maharashtra contributes the maximum (3,587 tons), according to data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
-
India is the second country most affected by the coronavirus pandemic. It is almost 6 lakh of cases short of topping the Covid count in the US, the worst country hit by Covid so far with more than 78 lakh of cases and more than 2 lakh of deaths.
-
The World Bank has said that continued school closings in many states can cause a loss of more than $ 400 billion in the country’s future earnings, in addition to substantial learning losses. The South Asia region could lose $ 622 billion from school closures in the current scenario or as much as $ 880 billion in a more pessimistic scenario, he said, adding that the regional loss is largely driven by India.
-
As the world races to find a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus, World Health Organization Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned against calls in some countries to let Covid-19 run its course in hopes of for people to develop so-called herd immunity, saying it was “unethical”
-
Johnson & Johnson has temporarily halted its COVID-19 vaccine trial because one of its participants had become ill. The hiatus means the online enrollment system has been closed for the 60,000-patient clinical trial when an independent patient safety committee is convened.
.
