The Ministry of Health highlighted that more than 70 percent of deaths occurred due to comorbidities.
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With a positivity rate of 8.06 percent, India reported 90,123 new cases, pushing its COVID-19 case count beyond the 50 lakh mark. The country also reported 1,290 deaths in the past 24 hours, the highest in one day, the Union Health Ministry said. The number of people who have died from the disease now stands at 82,066 with a fatality rate of 1.63%. More than 39 lakh people are cured with a 78.52 percent recovery rate. Almost 83,000 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours, bringing total recoveries closer to the number of new cases. Only 20 percent, or 9,95,933 cases, are active.
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Maharashtra remains the worst hit state by the pandemic with a case count of 10.7 lakh, continuing to report more than 17,000 cases a day.
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About half (48.8%) of active cases are concentrated in three states: Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Kerala and Telangana contribute about a quarter (24.4 percent) of active cases, the ministry said.
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More than 37 percent of the cumulative deaths reported so far in the country are from Maharashtra. The state reported 34.44 percent of deaths in the past 24 hours, the ministry said Tuesday.
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The Ministry of Health highlighted that more than 70 percent of the deaths were caused by comorbidities.
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Karnataka reported more than 8,200 new cases, most of them in its capital. Bangalore now has more Covid cases than Mumbai, second only to Delhi and Pune.
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Delhi’s COVID-19 count rose to more than 2.25 lakh after 4,263 new cases were reported on Tuesday. Thirty-six deaths brought the death toll to 4,806, according to the latest bulletin issued by the Delhi health department.
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A seroprevalence survey conducted in Delhi in the first week of August found that 30 percent, or 79 of the 257 people who recovered from COVID-19 had no antibodies to the virus, making them vulnerable to reinfection.
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Worldwide, nearly 3 million people have been infected by SARS-CoV-2, and more than 9.23 million people have lost their lives to the pandemic since it broke out in China late last year.
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In terms of recoveries, India is in first position, followed by Brazil and the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University, which has been collecting COVID-19 data from around the world.
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India is the second most affected country in terms of COVID-19 cases after the United States. It is in third place in deaths after the United States and Brazil, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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