India recorded 75,829 cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 940 related deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing its count to more than 6.5 million, data from the Union Ministry of Health showed on Sunday. the morning.
India maintained its trend of keeping active cases below the 1 million mark for the thirteenth consecutive day with 937,625 infections on Sunday. The country’s Covid-19 count now stands at 6,549,373, including 101,782 deaths, the Health Ministry dashboard showed at 8 a.m.
With 82,260 recoveries registered in the last 24 hours, so far 5,509,966 patients have recovered from the viral disease throughout the country. India’s recovery rate is currently at 84.12%.
The Ministry of Health has said that India accounts for 21% of recovered cases globally, while its share in total cases is 18.6%. “India has maintained its global position with one of the lowest fatality rates (CFR) compared to several other countries. While the global CFR is 2.97% to date, the comparative figure for India is 1.56%, ”he said on Saturday.
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Deaths per million people in India is also one of the lowest in the world, according to the ministry. “While the world average is 130 deaths / million inhabitants, India reports 73 deaths / million inhabitants,” he said.
The ministry also said Saturday that 74.36% of the cases recovered in the last 24 hours were from 10 states and Union territories. Maharashtra contributed the largest number to these, followed by Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
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On Saturday, 78.2% of new cases were reported in 10 states and the Union territories with Maharashtra contributed about 16,000 to the new cases, less than the day before. Kerala rose to second place with 9,258 new cases, while Karnataka reported more than 8,000 new cases daily.
Ten states and Union territories accounted for 84.1% of the deaths, as 39.66% of the deaths reported yesterday are from Maharashtra with 424 deaths, followed by Karnataka with 125 deaths, the ministry said on Saturday.
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India’s Covid-19 positivity rate has seen a marginal decline, government data shows, dropping from 8.52% a month ago to 8.32% on Saturday. The government attributes to the significant expansion of testing for Covid-19. India increased its testing capacity from one in January to more than 77 million in October. “With the rate of positivity gradually falling, the tests have worked as an effective tool to limit the spread of the # COVID19 infection,” the Health Ministry tweeted on Sunday.
Globally, there are 34,797,492 people who have contracted the coronavirus disease and 1,031,576 have succumbed to it, according to the Johns Hopkins tracker. The United States is the most affected country in the world, followed by India and Brazil.
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