India on Wednesday recorded 89,706 new cases of the coronavirus disease in the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 43.70.129, according to the Union Ministry of Health panel on Wednesday.
The number of fatalities increased by 1,115, according to data from the Ministry of Health, to 73,890.
The number of active cases increased even more, with 13,697 registered in the last 24 hours. The total number of active cases amounts to 8,97,394.
The number of active cases will soon cross the nine lakh mark. The most worrying situation is that half of these cases occur in just three states: Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
India has seen the number of cases increase rapidly in the month of August; In the third week of last month, the country added 4,024 active cases per day. The number has now increased to 14,273 daily active cases.
At this rate, India will see one million active cases next week.
There is concern that the government allows more relaxations. Metro services have been resumed in stages, and with footfalls expected to increase in the coming days, authorities fear the number of cases could rise further.
The Health Ministry had said on Tuesday that the three aforementioned states, along with Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, account for nearly 70 percent of Covid-19 deaths in the country.
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that apart from these five states, other union states and territories account for 31.37 percent of deaths due to the disease.
He also highlighted that despite the high number of cases, the number of Covid-19 cases per million inhabitants in the country is 3,102, among the lowest in the world.
Bhushan said the world average number of cases per million people is 3,527.
He also said that the fatal case rate (CFR) is continuously decreasing. “It was 2.15 percent in the first week of August. It now stands at 1.70 percent compared to the world average of 3.04 percent, ”Bhushan said.
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