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Coronavirus cases have increased across India as there is a week left for the 3.0 block to end. (Image: Reuters)Latest coronavirus news: The number of confirmed cases of positive Coronavirus cases in India has increased significantly in the last two days and has crossed 62,000 points, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The number of cases increased by 40 percent through Saturday. This is a much higher growth rate compared to the previous five days, when reported cases had increased by 29 percent.
India’s case count is now roughly double that of eleven days ago. This is considerably slower compared to the beginning of April, when cases doubled every four days. Deaths have also seen a slower increase from the pattern in early April, but over the past week they have increased speed. As of today morning, the death toll on COVID-19 in India was 2,109, almost double what it was ten days earlier. The total number of coronavirus cases in India is 62,939 of which 41,472 are active cases, while 19,357 have been cured and discharged while one patient migrated.
Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Delhi have seen the largest increase in cases among the top ten states with the majority of cases in the past seven days and similarly account for 44 percent of all new active cases. Deaths in West Bengal, Gujarat and Rajasthan have increased the most in the same period. In the past seven days, these three states account for 34 percent of all COVID-19 related deaths.
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