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India reported 145,380 cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) after 6,535 new infections were reported between Monday and Tuesday morning, the Union health ministry, said.
The ministry of health data) at 8am showed that 146 people, of 154 fatalities on the morning of Monday, also died after contracting Covid-19. Until now, 4,167 people have succumbed to the disease. The number of people who have been recovered up to the moment it is situated in the 60,490, he said.
More than half of the numbers come from four states.
Maharashtra has 52,667 cases of coronavirus disease and the state of Tamil Nadu has the second highest number of patients in the country with 17,082 people infected so far. Gujarat has 14,460 people who have been infected by the Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes the Covid-19 to date and Delhi count has jumped to 14,053.
With a growing number of cases, more than 6,500 every day from four days ago, India is now the tenth country most affected by the coronavirus pandemic after the united States, Brazil, Russia, Uk, france, Spain, Italy, France, Germany.
India had overtaken Iran to become the 10th largest hot spot of the pathogen, which has rapidly swept the world.
More than 5.49 million people have been infected and 346,232 have died around the world, according to Johns Hopkins Covid-19 tracker.
The US has registered a greater 532 deaths per Covid-19, bringing the total to 98218, with 16,62,375 cases of the virus, much more than any other nation.
The increase in numbers, on the ninth day of the fourth phase of the emergency, which is scheduled to terminate on May 31, as India has eased restrictions considerably, including allowing domestic air travel.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (icmr) said that it has collected about 24,000 blood samples of the 60 districts in 21 states over the past two weeks by a sero-survey or a test of blood serum to check for exposure to Sars-Cov infection-2 virus in the general population.
The states from where samples were taken are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, UP, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, and Jammu and Kashmir.
In addition, approximately 5,000 samples have been collected from 10 hotspot cities with the highest number of cases: Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad, thane, Pune, Indore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Aurangabad.
The first batch of approximately 70% of the samples are sent to a central laboratory in Tamil Nadu for the analysis of Sunday, and the results are expected in approximately three weeks.
This community-based survey remain the key to achieve several vital clues about the disease of trend, to the test and so on, experts said.
Apart from the sero-survey, the Union ministry of health has a hospital-based active surveillance plan by using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing among health workers, department of ambulatory care patients, and pregnant women in all districts.
At least 10 hospitals (six public and four private—will be selected from each district for the collection of samples, with a general aim of the elevation of 800 samples a month.
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