There were 45,209 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 501 related deaths in the past 24 hours across India, bringing the country’s tally to more than 9.09 million, data from the Health Ministry showed. of the Union on Sunday. The number of infections and deaths was slightly lower than the 46,232 and 564 on Saturday, respectively. The total number of infections amounts to 9,095,806 and the death toll has risen to 133,227.
The increasing cases have prompted several states to impose restrictions, penalties and postpone the reopening of schools. Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan have imposed a night curfew in several districts and Delhi has raised the fine for not wearing masks in public places.
There are 440,962 active cases of Covid-19 and 8,521,617 people have recovered from the viral disease, according to the Ministry of Health panel at 8 a.m. The gap between active and recovered cases is gone and so is the national recovery rate by 93.68%.
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“The 4.34% Daily Positivity Rate indicates that a comparatively huge volume was tested to detect these cases in the population. With a continuous increase in daily cases in European and American countries, India is taking all precautionary measures to control the trajectory of the disease. In view of the increase in COVID cases in some of the northern states of India, the Center has recommended to all states and UT to speed up testing, ”the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
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He said 24 states and Union territories have conducted more tests per million inhabitants than India as a whole. “12 states / UT have tests per million lower than the national average, and they have been encouraged to substantially increase testing levels,” he added.
“India has crossed another historic milestone in the fight against the global pandemic. Keeping in line with its commitment to perform over one million tests every day, 10,66,022 samples were analyzed in the last 24 hours, bringing India’s total cumulative tests to 13,06,57,808, ”said the Saturday the ministry. The last 10 million tests were done in a span of just 10 days.
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