India’s Covid-19 case count surpassed 41 lakh with a record 90,632 people infected in one day, while 31,80,865 people have recovered so far raising the national recovery rate to 77.32 percent on Sunday, according to data from the Union Ministry of Health. .
The total number of cases of coronavirus amounted to 41,13,811, while the death toll rose to 70,626 and the new coronavirus virus claimed 1,065 lives in a 24-hour span in the country, the updated data showed at 8 a.m. Covid-19 fatality rate due to coronavirus infection has further decreased to 1.72 percent. There are 8,62,320 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country, representing 20.96 percent of the total number of cases, according to the data.
India’s Covid-19 count had crossed the 20 lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, and surpassed 40 lakh on September 5.
According to the ICMR, until September 5 a cumulative total of 4,88,31,145 samples have been analyzed and on Saturday 10,92,654 samples have been analyzed.
Of the 1,065 recent deaths, 312 are from Maharashtra, 128 from Karnataka, 81 from Uttar Pradesh, 71 from Andhra Pradesh, 69 from Punjab, 61 from Tamil Nadu, 58 from West Bengal, 34 from Bihar, 30 from Madhya Pradesh, 25 from Delhi, 22 from Haryana, 19 from Chhattisgarh, 18 from Puducherry and Uttarakhand, 15 from Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand.
Fourteen deaths have been reported in Rajasthan, 11 in Kerala, nine in Goa and Telangana, eight in Tripura, seven in Assam and Odisha, four in Himachal Pradesh, while the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Manipur and Meghalaya have been reported. they have registered one death each.
Of the total of 70,626 deaths, Maharashtra has reported the highest at 26,276 followed by 7,748 in Tamil Nadu, 6,298 in Karnataka, 4,538 in Delhi, 4,347 in Andhra Pradesh, 3,843 in Uttar Pradesh, 3,510 in West Bengal, 3,091 in Gujarat and 1,808 in Punjab .
So far, 1,543 people have died of Covid-19 in Madhya Pradesh, 1,122 in Rajasthan, 886 in Telangana, 781 in Haryana, 770 in Jammu and Kashmir, 735 in Bihar, 538 in Odisha, 462 in Jharkhand, 356 in Chhattisgarh, 352 in Assam, 337 in Kerala and 330 in Uttarakhand.
Puducherry has registered 298 deaths, Goa 229, Tripura 144, Chandigarh 69, Himachal Pradesh 54, Andaman and Nicobar Islands 50, Manipur 36, Ladakh 35, Meghalaya 15, Nagaland 10, Arunachal Pradesh eight, Sikkim five and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu two. The Ministry of Health highlighted that more than 70 percent of deaths occurred due to comorbidities.
“Our figures are being reconciled with the Indian Council for Medical Research,” the ministry said on its website, adding that the distribution of the figures statewide is subject to further verification and reconciliation.
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