NEW DELHI: India’s Covid-19 death toll stood at the third highest in the world after overtaking Mexico on Friday, even as the number of pandemics continued to rise in the country and the daily count of new cases fell. stayed above 76,000 for the third consecutive day and deaths. more than 1,000 for the fourth consecutive day.
With 1,015 deaths reported on Friday, the death toll from the virus rose to 62,635, topping Mexico’s Covid-19 figure of 62,594, according to data from worldometers.info at 11 p.m. US alone, at 1.85,272. deaths recorded so far, and Brazil (1,18,988) have a higher death toll than India. However, India’s death rate from the infection, 1.8%, remains the lowest among these three countries.
However, deaths from the virus are increasing in India. Friday was the fourth day in a row that more than 1,000 deaths were reported. Cases have also increased at the highest rate in the world.
With 76,464 new infections on Friday, India has recorded 2,28,967 new cases in the past three days alone, according to data collected by TOI from state governments. This is the highest number of Covid-19 cases reported in a three-day period by any country. The United States had reported 2,16,141 cases between July 16 and 18, during the peak phase of the pandemic in the country.
India’s total Covid-19 case burden stood at 34.57,720 as of late Friday, with 26,42,180 recoveries and 7.52,905 active cases. With the most recent outbreak of infections, active cases have risen nearly 45,000 in three days.
On Friday, Andhra Pradesh became the third state in the country to register a total number of cases of more than four lakhs. The state reported more than 10,000 new cases for the third day in a row. Six states reported their highest peak of cases in a single day on Friday: Odisha (3,682), Kerala (2,543), Gujarat (1,272), Jharkhand (1,365), Puducherry (604) and Tripura (509).
Maharashtra, for the third day in a row, added more than 14,000 new Covid cases and more than 300 deaths, bringing the tally to 7,47,995, about 7.5 lakh. Given the sharp increase in cases in August, Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray announced that people over 55 with comorbidities would be actively screened for the spread of the virus.
The state’s public health department’s Covid update on Friday said 14,361 new cases were reported. With 331 deaths, the death toll in Maharashtra rose to 23,775. There are 1,80,718 active Covid cases in the state.
Andhra Pradesh, where the total cases topped 4 lakh on Friday, had passed the one lakh mark on July 27, nearly 135 days after the state reported its first case. But it took only 11 days for the state to add the next lakh of cases to hit the two-lakh milestone. The third lakh of cases also arrived in 11 days. But the state recorded the last one lakh cases in just 10 days.
With 1,015 deaths reported on Friday, the death toll from the virus rose to 62,635, topping Mexico’s Covid-19 figure of 62,594, according to data from worldometers.info at 11 p.m. US alone, at 1.85,272. deaths recorded so far, and Brazil (1,18,988) have a higher death toll than India. However, India’s death rate from the infection, 1.8%, remains the lowest among these three countries.
However, deaths from the virus are increasing in India. Friday was the fourth day in a row that more than 1,000 deaths were reported. Cases have also increased at the highest rate in the world.
With 76,464 new infections on Friday, India has recorded 2,28,967 new cases in the past three days alone, according to data collected by TOI from state governments. This is the highest number of Covid-19 cases reported in a three-day period by any country. The United States had reported 2,16,141 cases between July 16 and 18, during the peak phase of the pandemic in the country.
India’s total Covid-19 case burden stood at 34.57,720 as of late Friday, with 26,42,180 recoveries and 7.52,905 active cases. With the most recent outbreak of infections, active cases have risen nearly 45,000 in three days.
On Friday, Andhra Pradesh became the third state in the country to register a total number of cases of more than four lakhs. The state reported more than 10,000 new cases for the third day in a row. Six states reported their highest peak of cases in a single day on Friday: Odisha (3,682), Kerala (2,543), Gujarat (1,272), Jharkhand (1,365), Puducherry (604) and Tripura (509).
Maharashtra, for the third day in a row, added more than 14,000 new Covid cases and more than 300 deaths, bringing the tally to 7,47,995, about 7.5 lakh. Given the sharp increase in cases in August, Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray announced that people over 55 with comorbidities would be actively screened for the spread of the virus.
The state’s public health department’s Covid update on Friday said 14,361 new cases were reported. With 331 deaths, the death toll in Maharashtra rose to 23,775. There are 1,80,718 active Covid cases in the state.
Andhra Pradesh, where the total cases topped 4 lakh on Friday, had passed the one lakh mark on July 27, nearly 135 days after the state reported its first case. But it took only 11 days for the state to add the next lakh of cases to hit the two-lakh milestone. The third lakh of cases also arrived in 11 days. But the state recorded the last one lakh cases in just 10 days.
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