More than 76,000 Covid patients have died in India so far.
New Delhi:
India saw a record single-day increase in coronavirus cases and deaths related to the highly infectious disease with 96,551 new infections and 1,209 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, exceeding 45 lakh, government data showed this. morning.
The latest increase comes a day after the country reported a massive increase of 95,735 new infections. While the country’s count rose to 45,62,414 this morning, around 35.42 lakh of Covid patients have been recovered so far. More than 76,000 patients have died.
India is the second country most affected by the pandemic, which has affected more than 2.8 million people around the world.
The recovery rate stood at 77.76 percent this morning, while the death rate stood at 1.6 percent.
The positivity rate, an indicator of the prevalence of the disease, was reported to be 8.2 percent this morning, compared to 8.4 percent yesterday.
So far, samples of approximately Rs 5.4 million have been tested in the country with a population of approximately Rs 130 million. More than 11.6 lakhs of samples have been tested since yesterday; the largest number of samples, 11,72,179, were analyzed in September, government data shows.
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