New Delhi, September 9
With 89,706 infections reported in one day, India’s COVID-19 count exceeded 43 lakh, while 33.98,844 people have recovered from the disease so far, bringing the national recovery rate to 77.77 per percent on Wednesday, according to data shared by the Union. Ministry of Health.
Total coronavirus cases amounted to 43,70,128, while the death toll rose to 73,890 and 1,115 people succumbed to the disease in a 24-hour span in the country, data updated at 8 a.m. showed.
The COVID-19 fatality rate has dropped further to 1.69 percent.
There are 8.97,394 active cases of COVID-19, which represents 20.53 percent of the total cases in the country, according to the data.
India’s COVID-19 count had crossed the 20 lakh mark on August 7, reached 30 lakh on August 23, and surpassed 40 lakh on September 5.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, a cumulative total of 5,18,04,677 samples have been analyzed as of September 8 and 11,54,549 samples have been analyzed on Tuesday.
Of the 1,115 recent deaths, 380 are from Maharashtra, 146 from Karnataka, 87 from Tamil Nadu, 73 from Andhra Pradesh, 71 from Uttar Pradesh, 67 from Punjab, 57 from West Bengal, 25 from Haryana, 20 from Madhya Pradesh, 19 from Delhi, 14 from Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand, 13 from Gujarat, Odisha, Kerala and Rajasthan.
Twelve deaths each have been reported from Chhattisgarh, Puducherry and Uttarakhand, 11 from Goa, 10 from Telangana, nine from Tripura, eight from Assam, five from Himachal Pradesh, four from Bihar and Chandigarh, two from Sikkim, while Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur have registered one death each.
Of the total 73,890 deaths, Maharashtra has reported the highest of 27,407, followed by 8,012 in Tamil Nadu, 6,680 in Karnataka, 4,618 in Delhi, 4,560 in Andhra Pradesh, 4,047 in Uttar Pradesh, 3,677 in West Bengal, 3,133 in Gujarat and 1,990 in Punjab.
So far 1,609 people have died of COVID-19 in Madhya Pradesh, 1,164 in Rajasthan, 916 in Telangana, 854 in Haryana, 815 in Jammu and Kashmir, 765 in Bihar, 569 in Odisha, 496 in Jharkhand, 407 in Chhattisgarh, 378 in Assam, 372 in Kerala and 360 in Uttarakhand.
Puducherry has recorded 337 deaths, Goa 256, Tripura 161, Chandigarh 78, Himachal Pradesh 60, Andaman and Nicobar Islands 50, Manipur 39, Ladakh 35, Meghalaya 17, Nagaland 10, Arunachal Pradesh nine, Sikkim seven 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. PTI
