Coronavirus cases in India surpass the 49 lakh mark, deaths surpass 80,000 in the past 24 hours.
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With 83,809 new infections reported in the past 24 hours, India’s coronavirus count has crossed the 49 lakh mark. The pandemic claimed 1,054 lives in the past 24 hours, bringing India’s total death toll to more than 80,000. The country now has 9.90 lakh of active cases and a total of 38.59 lakh of patients in the country have recovered from COVID-19. Maharashtra remains the state most affected by the pandemic, followed by Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh. Worldwide, nearly 3 million people have been infected by Sars-CoV-2, and more than 9.23 million people have lost their lives to the pandemic since it broke out in China late last year.
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At 83,809, the new coronavirus cases reported in the last 24 hours are the least reported by India in the week when its daily cases were around 90,000.
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India, which has been reporting the highest number of new cases in the world since August, analyzed more than 10.7 lakh of samples in the past 24 hours, data from the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) shows.
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Now that India is the epicenter of the pandemic, the monsoon session of Parliament began on Monday and 25 MPs, 17 members of the Lok Sabha and eight of the Rajya Sabha, tested positive in the mandatory tests carried out, the sources said.
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Among the infected Lok Sabha MPs, the BJP has a maximum number: 12. The YSR Congress has two MPs, Shiv Sena, DMK and RLP, one each.
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Delhi’s Chief Deputy Minister Manish Sisodia, who has been leading the national capital’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic, also tested positive for the virus on Monday. The leader confirmed his infection in a tweet and said he was in self-isolation to avoid transmitting the disease.
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As overall cases fell marginally today, states such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha recorded their highest peak each day in coronavirus cases so far.
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However, the country continues to have the highest number of coronavirus recoveries in the world with a recovery rate of 77.99 percent. On Monday, India surpassed Brazil to have the highest number of Covid-19 recoveries globally, data from the United States-based John Hopkins University showed.
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Globally, there are more than 2.89 million million cases of COVID-19, with 9.32 million deaths.
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The United States has the highest number of deaths with 1.94 lakh, followed by Brazil with 1.31 lakh, India 80,521, Mexico 70,821 and Great Britain 41,628.
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The World Health Organization on Sunday reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases, with a total increase of 307,930 in 24 hours. Europe is expected to see an increase in the daily number of deaths from Covid-19 in October and November after a sharp increase in recent weeks.
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