On Friday, just over 8.8 lakh of samples were tested for the coronavirus across India, a drop of more than 2.5 lakh (nearly 23%) in the past two days, according to official data cited by covid19india.org, a website that tracks the pandemic. in the country. On Wednesday, nearly 11.4 lakh of tests were conducted, which decreased to around 10.1 lakh on Thursday.
The number of tests on Friday was the lowest conducted on any day of the week since Aug. 25, the website’s data revealed. India’s positivity rate, the percentage of samples that are positive for the virus out of the total tests performed, is currently around 8.6% to 8.7%, pointing to the need to further increase the tests. tests to adequately track infections. Experts say that the positivity rate should be below 5% for the tests to be considered adequate.
With 94,145 new cases detected on Friday, India’s Covid-19 case burden rose to 53,94,625, according to official state government data compiled by TOI. This was the sixth consecutive day of more than 90,000 daily cases in the country.
Meanwhile, India has recorded the highest number of recoveries from Covid-19 infection in the world. The number of recoveries in the country, currently at 42,92,112, topped the count in the US (42,01,211) earlier in the day.
With 1,145 deaths reported on Saturday, the daily death toll from the virus in India has remained above 1,100 for five days in a row.
On Saturday, at least five states reported their highest peak of cases in a single day, with major increases reported in Kerala (4,644 new cases) and Uttarakhand (2,078). The other three states, Gujarat (1,432), Madhya Pradesh (2,607) and Rajasthan (1,834) posted incremental increases from their previous highs.
For the fifth day in a row, Maharashtra reported more than 20,000 Covid cases (21,907) and more than 400 deaths (425) on Saturday, bringing the number of cases to 11.9 lakh and the number of victims to 32,216 so far.
Mumbai also reported more than 2,000 cases for the fourth day in a row, bringing the count to 1.82 lakh. Fifty people died in Mumbai on Saturday, bringing the city’s death toll to 8,425 so far. On the bright side, the city posted a record number of downloads, 5,105, on Saturday. For the second day in a row, the number of discharges was higher than the number of admissions in both Mumbai and Maharashtra. Also, active cases in the state were reduced to 2.97,840 from 3,00,887 in the last 24 hours.
Tamil Nadu recorded 5,569 new Covid-19 cases and 66 deaths on Saturday. The cumulative death toll reached 8,751 and the state has 46,453 active cases according to government records. In the last 19 days, the state added 1,08,552 cases, bringing the cumulative count to 5,36,477. Health department officials say the infection rate has dropped in most places. Between August 13 and 31, the state added 1,13,521 cases. The doubling period for infection has increased to 63 days compared to 46 days on August 31.
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