India’s count of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Sunday crossed the 5.4 million mark with an increase of 92,605 new cases and 1,133 deaths in the past 24 hours. The country has been recording the highest number of cases every day since early August, when it began seeing more than 50,000 cases a day.
The country saw more than 90,000 Covid-19 cases in one day on September 6 with 90,632 new infections, the highest peak in a single day globally, a trend that has seen an upward escalation this month.
Here is a summary of the Covid-19 statistics in India today:
– India saw 92,605 new cases of the coronavirus disease in the last 24 hours.
– The number of active Covid-19 cases in India stands at 1,010,824 as of Sunday, while 4,303,043 people have recovered so far. These represent 18.72 percent of the total cases that India has seen so far.
– India is currently the second most affected country, after the United States, which has reported more than 6.7 million infections so far. With the current increase in the burden of cases, India is expected to overtake the United States as the country most affected by the pandemic in the coming weeks.
– India surpassed the two million case mark in seven months on August 7 after it reported the first case on January 30 in Kerala. India has taken just 42 days to register another three million cases. India crossed the five million mark earlier this week on September 16.
– A total of 1,113 people died from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said, bringing the death toll to 86,752, which is a relatively low 1.6 percent of all cases.
– India’s single-day recoveries have surpassed the number of recent infections reported for the second day in a row on Sunday after 94,612 people recovered from the viral illness in the past 24 hours.
– The fatality rate for Covid-19 in the country is 1.61 percent.
– Indian authorities have analyzed a cumulative total of 6,36,61,060 samples as of September 19, with 12,06,806 samples analyzed on Saturday.
– Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh remain the five most affected states and record the highest number of victims.
– More than 70 percent of deaths have occurred due to comorbidities, said the Ministry of Health.
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