COVID-19: Many states in India have banned the sale of firecrackers amid the coronavirus pandemic.
New Delhi:
India recorded 50,356 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours and 577 COVID-19 related deaths, government data shows, according to which Delhi has the highest number of Covid cases in one day. Friday’s case count was the second time more than 50,000 cases were recorded in the past three days, the data shows. India has registered an average of 48,000 cases last week. Some 53,920 people also battled the highly contagious disease in the past 24 hours. There are now 5,16,632 active cases of coronavirus, the data shows. The total number of recoveries exceeded the 78 lakh mark, bringing the recovery rate to 92.4 percent.
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The country now has a total of 84,62,080 coronavirus cases with 1,25,562 total deaths linked to Covid since January 30, when India reported its first COVID-19 case.
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The death rate has hovered around 1.5 percent since the mid-September surge, but daily deaths have dropped from 1,100 a day to about 500 a day.
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However, the one-day positivity rate increased marginally to 4.5 percent based on tests of nearly 11 lakh performed in the past 24 hours.
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Delhi, which is in the midst of a third wave of Covid infections, recorded 7,178 cases in one day, the highest in the country in this period. For the past three days, Delhi had been reporting more than 6,000 coronavirus cases a day. The second-largest increase in cases occurred on November 4, when the city reported 6,842 cases.
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The national capital was followed by Kerala (7,002), Maharashtra (6,870), West Bengal with nearly 4,000 cases, a one-day count that it has held for a few weeks, and Karnataka (2,960). Together these states account for 50 percent of all cases in India.
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Maharashtra, the worst affected state in the country with a total of 17 lakh cases, continued to report the highest deaths in one day, as 161 Covid patients lost their lives in the past 24 hours. Delhi followed with 64 deaths, West Bengal (55), Chhattisgarh (52) and Karnataka (35), which together account for 63 percent of all deaths.
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Delhi’s rising positivity rate (12.2 percent) and deaths have worried experts amid severe pollution, 45 percent of which is attributed to stubble burning in neighboring states.
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Poor air quality is a major cofactor that increases the risk of COVID-19 mortality by 15 worldwide, according to the latest research, the National Green Court was reported in a case related to the ban on firecrackers.
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Amid growing concerns of a second, more severe national wave of coronavirus infections in the winter, several states, including Delhi, Karnataka, Odisha, Sikkim, Rajasthan and West Bengal, have banned firecrackers ahead of Diwali.
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India remains the second most affected country after the United States, which recorded a record 1.27,000 new coronavirus cases in one day. The country has more than 97 lakh of Covid cases and more than 236,000 coronavirus-related deaths.
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