Coronavirus cases in India close to 60 lakh-mark, 88,600 new cases, 1,124 deaths in one day.
New Delhi:
India recorded 88,600 new coronavirus cases with 1,124 deaths in the past 24 hours as its coronavirus count approached the 60 lakh mark, COVID-19 data from the Ministry of Health shows. With 92,043 people battling the disease in the past 24 hours, the number of one-day recoveries remained higher than new infections, the data shows. Total coronavirus recoveries in India are now 49.41 lakh. The country has 9.56 lakhs of active cases and 94,503 people have lost their lives from COVID-19 so far. Around 9.87 lakh of Covid tests were also conducted in the last 24 hours.
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With 59,92,532 total cases, India is the second most affected country by the coronavirus pandemic, second only to the United States, which has more than 72 lakh of cases. Global coronavirus infections have soared to more than 3.3 million rupees.
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The national daily positivity rate (or the percentage of tests that are positive) rose to 8.9 from 6.3 percent yesterday. The recovery rate has risen to 82.1%. The national mortality rate has remained at 1.5%; More than 1,000 people a day have died from the coronavirus since September 2.
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Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu recorded the largest increases in one day of any state in the past 24 hours. Together, these five states reported 49,176 new cases, or about 55 percent of all new cases.
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While Maharashtra, the most affected state in the country with a count of 13.21 lakh, recorded 20,419 new cases in the last 24 hours, the others reported between 7,000 and 9,000 new infections, except for Tamil Nadu, which registered an increase of 5,647 cases. new.
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Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, the five most affected states in the country, also recorded the highest deaths: 430, 57, 86, 85, 67, respectively. These account for 64.5 percent of all deaths in India.
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Maharashtra’s Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday expressed his fear of a “second wave” of coronavirus transmission as more people move to work, and called for stricter enforcement of the rules. He was especially concerned about asymptomatic patients who do not strictly isolate themselves and spread the infection.
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In West Bengal, movie theaters will reopen from October 1. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also said musical, dance and magic shows with 50 participants or fewer would be allowed subject to compliance with Covid security protocols.
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The Karnataka government has reduced the cost of RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 to a maximum of Rs 1,200, while private samples will cost Rs 1,600. Karnataka plans to increase daily COVID-19 tests from 65,000 to one lakh, of which 60,000 will be RT-PCR.
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Following complaints of hoarding and shortages, the central government said it was capping the price of liquid oxygen, which is used to treat patients for COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses, at 15.22 rupees per cubic meter.
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At the United Nations General Assembly, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India would help lift the world out of the coronavirus crisis with the mass distribution of vaccines once all trials are successfully completed, the Serum’s executive director Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker by volume – tweeted if “Does the government of India have Rs 80 billion available over the next year? … This is the next worrying challenge we must tackle.”
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