Coronavirus cases in India: Maharashtra remains the state most affected by the pandemic
New Delhi:
India reported a record daily increase of 97,894 coronavirus infections in 24 hours, surpassing the 51 lakh mark, data from the Health Ministry showed this morning. With 51,18,253 infections, India is the second most affected country in the world and only behind the United States, which has a case burden of around 66 lakh. For the first time, the number of active cases in the country has crossed the 10 lakh mark, the data showed. In the 24-hour period, India reported 1,132 virus-related deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 83,198.
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Maharashtra remains the state hardest hit by the pandemic with a case count of more than 10.7 lakh. More than 37 percent of the accumulated deaths reported so far in the country come from the western state.
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While Maharashtra has 2.97,506 active cases, the highest in the country, Karnataka with 1,01,645 cases, Uttar Pradesh (96,7002), Andhra Pradesh (90,279) and Delhi (30,914) are also on the list. Maharashtra, along with Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, currently contribute 49% of the total active cases in India and 52% of the total deaths.
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Delhi reported its highest peak in a single day on Wednesday, as 4,473 new cases were reported in the national capital. Delhi’s COVID-19 count is now 2.30 lakh.
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The national capital has seen a 45 percent increase in the number of buffer zones in the last 10 days. COVID-19 home isolation cases also increased by more than 50 percent to reach 16,576 during the period, according to official data.
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Phase I clinical trials of the two candidate vaccines developed indigenously by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with ICMR and Cadila Healthcare Ltd have revealed “excellent safety”, Rajya Sabha reported Wednesday. The Minister of State for Health, Ashwini Choubey, informed the upper house that its phase II clinical trials are ongoing.
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On Wednesday, India crossed the 50 lakh mark by registering 90,123 new cases. It took India just 230 days to reach the grim milestone. India’s COVID-19 count had crossed the 20 lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, and 40 lakh on September 5.
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Although daily cases are among the highest in the world, the number of cases, compared to the population, is “among the lowest,” the government has said. The number of COVID-19 cases per million inhabitants in the country is 3,102, the Ministry of Health said, adding that the number of COVID-19 cases per million inhabitants in Brazil and the United States, the other two countries most affected, – is 6 times higher than that of India.
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India is better ranked compared to the United States and Brazil in terms of recoveries, according to Johns Hopkins University, which has been collecting COVID-19 data from around the world.
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India is the second most affected country in terms of COVID-19 cases after the United States. It is in third place in deaths after the United States and Brazil, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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Worldwide, nearly 3 million people have been infected by SARS-CoV-2, and more than 9.23 million people have lost their lives to the pandemic since it broke out in China late last year.
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