Coronavirus Cases in India: Daily cases have fallen from a high of almost 100,000 in mid-September.
New Delhi:
India has climbed an “unprecedented” peak as active coronavirus cases fell below the 8 lakh mark for the first time in 1.5 months, the Health Ministry said this morning as the country’s Covid count rose to 74.3 lakh after 62,212 new cases of COVID-19. were registered in the last 24 hours. The total number of active cases dropped to 7.95 lakh today as 70,816 patients battled COVID-19 since yesterday. According to government data, the number of active cases is now only 10.70 percent of the count. “This significant achievement is the result of central government-led strategies that lead to a high number of recoveries and a steady decline in the number of deaths,” the Health Ministry said.
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Although India continues to report the highest number of new daily COVID-19 infections in the world, the daily increase has dropped from 90,000-1 lakh of new cases in mid-September to around 70,000 last week.
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Around 65.2 lakh of patients have recovered from COVID-19 so far and 1,12,998 have died from it; Some 837 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours. The country’s average recovery rate is 87.8% and the mortality rate is 1.5%.
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According to government data, 79% of new cases, 78% of recoveries and 82% of deaths were concentrated in some states and territories of the union.
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The states of Kerala, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, which have reported a steady increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases, have dispatched high-level teams from the center to contain the spread of contagion. They have a high proportion of active or new cases in their count.
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Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh continue to be hit the hardest in terms of total numbers, and all of these states except UP also have the highest number of new cases in the last 24 hours.
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The average positivity rate was 6 percent, as nearly 10 lakh of tests were performed in the last 24 hours. A total of Rs 9.3 crore tests have been conducted in the country since the pandemic outbreak earlier this year.
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Globally, the coronavirus pandemic has cost the lives of 11 lakh people. At least 1,100,056 deaths have been reported, out of 38,997,267 cases.
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Nearly one in five deaths was in the United States, the worst affected country with 2.2 lakh deaths out of 80 lakh infections, followed by Brazil with 1.5 lakh deaths out of 52 lakh cases, India with 1.1 lakh deaths out of 74 , 3 lakh of cases.
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India remains the second worst affected country in the world behind the United States, which is seeing a further increase in cases ahead of the winter months. Yet India has one of the “lowest deaths per million inhabitants in the world,” the Health Ministry said.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for continued vigilance and high preparedness against the coronavirus, as experts warned of a possible spike in infections in the winter months. Modi has said that the facility to get tested regularly and quickly at low cost should be available to everyone as soon as possible.
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