India’s active covid count drops close to 6 lakh after 58,439 recoveries in one day


Coronavirus cases in India rose to 79,90,322 cases after recording 43,893 new infections in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry reported. India’s total death toll rose to 1,20,010 after witnessing 508 deaths on Tuesday. India’s total active case count is now 6,10,803 after a decrease of 15,054 in the last 24 hours.

India has cured a total of 72.59,509 cases with 58,439 new discharges in the last 24 hours.

India has tested a total of 10,54,87,680 samples for the coronavirus to date and of these 10,66,786 samples were tested on Tuesday, the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) said.

India, with more than 72 lakh of recovered COVID-19 patients, has the highest number of recoveries in the world, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on Tuesday that there has been a continued decline in the average daily deaths due to COVID-19 in the past five weeks.

“The recovery rate is 90.62% today. The cumulative positivity rate is constantly on the decline, and it is currently 7.61%. If you look at the number of cases per million, India has the fewest cases. per million people. ” We have 5,700 cases per million. Most developed Western economies have twice or even five times more cases per million than India, “he said, adding that more than 10 million million tests for COVID-19 have been conducted so far.

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