While it took 167 days for cases in India to reach the first million, the slowest among the worst affected countries, with a strict lockdown, infections in the country have accelerated since then. The next 4 million cases came in 61 days, the fastest increase in the world. The US alone, with 6.7 million infections, has more recorded cases.
Active cases in the country also crossed the 1 million mark on Tuesday. As with the total infection count, India’s active cases are also the second highest in the world after the US, where the count is 2.5 million.
With 90,789 new infections on Tuesday, India’s number of cases has risen to 50,14,395, according to TOI data collected from state governments. So far in September, more than 1.3 million cases have been registered, 27% of the total.
Meanwhile, India recorded its highest number of deaths in a single day, mainly due to a large increase in deaths in Maharashtra, which alone recorded a record 515 deaths. Deaths also increased in Uttar Pradesh, which reported 113 deaths, Karnataka (97), Punjab (90), Andhra Pradesh (69), Tamil Nadu (68) and Bengal (59).
The daily case count again surpassed 90,000 after falling to 80,663 on Monday, according to TOI data. Cases were up in most of the worst-hit states (except Karnataka, where lower tests led to cases falling by around 1,500). Bengal, with 3,227 new cases, and Rajasthan, with 1,760, had their highest increase in infections in one day.
With the addition of 515 deaths on Tuesday, the highest reported for any day, Maharashtra’s total death count crossed the 30,000 mark and stood at 30,409, accounting for 37% of Covid-19 deaths in India. . Covid mortality in the state has doubled from a daily average of 202 in the first week of July to 409.
Previously, the highest reported deaths in one day were 495, on September 10. Tuesday was the first time in more than six months since Covid-19 hit Maharashtra that the state reported 500 deaths. The state’s death rate stands at 2.7%.
A record 113 Covid-related deaths were reported in Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours. This is the maximum number of deaths reported in a single day so far. With this, the total number of Covid-19 victims in the state reached 4,604 on Tuesday.
According to an official Covid-19 bulletin, Lucknow accounted for a maximum of 15 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths in the capital city to 539.
Meanwhile, the Odisha government has called on district administrations to avoid referring patients to Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, where intensive care units (ICUs) are almost full.
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