Hindustan Times, New Delhi
India, the second country most affected by the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the world, registered 74,442 new infections and 903 deaths in the last 24 hours, which has brought its count to more than 6.6 million, as shown data from the Union Ministry of Health. Monday.
There are currently 6,623,815 cases of the coronavirus disease in the country, including 934,427 active cases and 102,685 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health panel at 8 a.m.
The country has been posting a high level of daily recoveries for the past few weeks, with 76,737 recoveries recorded between Sunday and Monday morning. Now, 5,586,703 people have been cured so far, bringing the national recovery rate to 84.34%. New recoveries have outpaced new cases of the coronavirus disease in recent days.
India’s total recoveries had topped 55.09.966 on Sunday with 75.44% of newly recovered cases recorded in 10 states and Union territories. Maharashtra, which has the highest number of active cases in the country, has also contributed the largest number to newly recovered cases, followed by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, according to the government on Sunday.
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The government also said that 10 states and territories of the Union represent 77.11% of active cases in the country. The percentage contribution of active cases to the country’s positive case burden fell to 14.32% on Sunday, he added.
Of the total new cases, 78% were concentrated in 10 states and Union territories and Maharashtra contributed more than 14,000 to the new cases. Karnataka and Kerala reported 9,886 and 7,834 new cases, respectively, according to government data.
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On Sunday, 80.53% of the reported deaths were from 10 states and Union territories, with 29.57% of the reported deaths from Maharashtra with 278 deaths, followed by Karnataka with 100 deaths. Maharashtra’s contribution to the death toll has decreased.
India has released high daily test figures on Thursday, Friday and Saturday with 10.97,947, 11.32,675 and 11,42,131 tests respectively “despite the extended weekend,” the government said. “There has been an exponential increase in the daily testing capacity of India. More than 15 lakhs of tests can be performed every day. An average of 11.5 lakhs of tests were performed daily over the last ten days, ”she added.
India’s total tests have surpassed 78.9 million so far from just one in January, when the first cases of the coronavirus disease were recorded in the country in Kerala. There has been a proportional drop in the positivity rate or the number of people who test positive compared to those who are tested in one day “With the rate of positivity in progressive decline, the tests have worked as a very effective tool to limit the spread of the COVID-19 infection. Very high levels of evidence lead to early identification, rapid isolation, and effective treatment of COVID-19 cases. These have eventually resulted in a sustained low mortality rate, ”the Health Ministry said.
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