India’s coronavirus disease (Covid-19) count rose to 5,214,677 after 96,424 new cases and 1,174 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours across the country, according to the Union Health Ministry on Friday.
The Covid-19 control panel of the Ministry of Health showed that there were 1,017,754 active cases and the country’s death toll has risen to 84,372.
About half or 48.45% of active Covid-19 cases are concentrated in three states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, the ministry said on Thursday. Together with Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, these states contribute almost 60% of the total active cases in the country, he added.
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According to the Ministry of Health dashboard at 8 am, 87,472 Covid-19 patients recovered between Thursday and Friday morning. With this, the number of recoveries in India has risen to 4,112,551 and the recovery rate to 78.86%.
India has recorded more than 82,000 recoveries for three days in a row and recovered cases exceed assets by more than 3 million, according to ministry data.
“These high levels of recovery have resulted in a 100% increase in the number of cases recovered in the last 30 days. Maharashtra (17,559) contributed more than a fifth of the new recoveries (21.22%), while the states of Andhra Pradesh (10,845), Karnataka (6,580), Uttar Pradesh (6,476) and Tamil Nadu (5,768) contributed with 35.87% of the new recoveries, ”the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
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He added that these states together represent 57.1% of the total new recoveries.
Maharashtra accounted for more than 40% of new coronavirus disease-related deaths. The next four states of Uttar Pradesh (86), Punjab (78), Andhra Pradesh (64), West Bengal (61) contributed 25.5% of deaths in the past 24 hours, the ministry said on Thursday.
There are more than 30 million cases of coronavirus disease worldwide and 944,887 people have succumbed to the viral disease, according to Covid-19 data from Johns Hopkins University.
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