Delhi recorded 1,954 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday.
New Delhi:
With a single-day peak of 76,472 new cases, India’s COVID-19 count surpassed the 34 lakh mark, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Saturday. The death toll from the virus reached 62,550 with 1,021 new deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
The COVID-19 case count is 34,63,973, including 7,52,424 active cases and 26,48,999 cured / discharged / migrated cases.
Maharashtra reported 16,867 new cases, 11,541 patients discharged and 328 deaths on Saturday. Delhi recorded 1,954 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the city’s highest single-day peak in August to date, bringing the count to more than 1.71 lakh as deaths from the disease soared. to 4,404, authorities said.
At the 20th meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 on Saturday, the center said that for every 1 million people, India’s coronavirus cases and deaths are one of the lowest compared to global averages. The Government of Mexico on COVID-19 received information on the current status of the coronavirus outbreak in India, the Ministry of Health said.
As of Saturday, eight states – Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha and Telangana – were reported to account for about 73 percent of the number of active cases.
Seven states (Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal) account for 81% of all deaths due to coronavirus infection.
At the meeting, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said the country has made great strides in containing the COVID-19 outbreak and instructed his ministry to develop standard operating procedures (SoP), which comprise protocols for COVID and preventive measures, for Parliament and Assembly sessions.
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Jharkhand reports 1,299 new COVID-19 cases and 8 deaths, bringing the total cases to 37,112, including 25,216 recoveries and 398 deaths. The number of active cases is 11,498: State Department of Health
2,427 new cases of COVID-19 detected today in the state, 1,440 discharged. The total number of cases in the state is 1,03,794, including 82,510 recovered patients and 289 deaths. Active cases total 20,992: Assam Minister of Health Himanta Biswa Sarma
Jharkhand’s number of COVID-19 cases rose to 37,112 on Saturday, as 1,299 more people tested positive for the infection, while nine new deaths raised the number of coronavirus deaths in the state to 398, according to a health bulletin. .
The new infections have raised the number of active COVID-19 cases in the state to 11,498, while 25,216 people have recovered so far, it said. A total of 19,993 samples have been tested for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the bulletin adds.
Just over six months after registering its first case of the new coronavirus, Brazil crossed the grim threshold of 120,000 people killed by Covid-19 on Saturday, with no end in sight to the crisis.
The country of 212 million people has recorded 120,262 deaths from the virus and 3,846,153 infections, the Health Ministry said in its daily update.
Brazil is only the second country to exceed the 120,000 death toll in the pandemic, after the United States, where the death toll now exceeds 182,000.
Assam’s number of COVID-19 cases rose to 1.03,794 on Saturday, as 2,427 more people tested positive for the infection, while three more deaths brought the number of coronavirus deaths in the state to 289, the minister said. of Health, Himanta Biswa Sarma.
The metropolitan district of Kamrup, under which Guwahati is located, has reported the highest number of new infections with 459, followed by Dibrugarh (177), Cachar (158) and Jorhat (136), Sarma said.
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