India’s Covid-19 count on Saturday reached more than 8.46 million after 50,356 cases and 577 deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health dashboard.
The total cases now include 516,632 active cases, 7,819,886 recoveries, and 125,562 deaths. Total active cases remained less than 520,000. The number of daily recoveries from Covid-19 remained higher than the daily infections recorded.
The ministry said Friday that 80 percent of the new recovered cases and 79 percent of the new infections come from 10 states and union territories (UT).
Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi, Karnataka, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh continue to be hit hardest by the pandemic. According to data on Friday, Maharashtra once again contributed the highest number of daily cases with 10,259 new infections between Thursday and Friday. The state also reports peak recoveries in a single day: more than 11,000.
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Delhi, which had previously set an example of how to curb the spread of Covid-19, has now reported a sharp increase in its daily cases. On Friday, the national capital recorded 7,178 cases of Covid-19, the highest since the outbreak in March, which raised the overall count to 423,831. There were 66 deaths on Thursday, the highest since June.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that Delhi is witnessing a third wave of Covid-19, adding that the government is monitoring the situation and there is no need to panic.
Meanwhile, the global coronavirus count is approaching the 50 million mark, comprising 1,248,566 deaths and 35,251,727 recoveries, according to Worldometer figures.
The United States, which remains the hardest hit globally, reported a record rise in new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row with more than 127,000 new cases, data from John Hopkins University showed on Friday. Cases are expected to increase as the country moves into the winter season and people switch to socializing primarily indoors, prime conditions for transmitting the infection from person to person.
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