India set a world record on Sunday after recording the highest number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases with 90,632 in a single day.
With the number of Covid-19 cases topping the 4.1 million mark and more than 70,000 deaths on Sunday, India is expected to overtake Brazil as the second most affected country in the world.
Brazil has 4,123,000 Covid-19 cases and 1,26,203 deaths to date, according to John Hopkins University. The United States is the most affected country in the world with 6.2 million infections and 1.8 million deaths.
Here’s everything you need to know about the Covid-19 disease outbreak in India today:
• India has a total of 41,13,811 positive cases of coronavirus as of Sunday, data from the Union Ministry of Health showed.
• The death toll in India due to Covid-19 rose to 70,626 on Sunday after 1,065 new deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours.
• India hit the 2 million mark on August 7. It took the country 16 more days to register another million cases and register 3 million accumulated cases. It only took 12 days for the count to surpass the 4 million mark.
• India has 8.6 million active coronavirus cases in the country, accounting for 20.96 percent of the total number of cases.
• A total of 73,642 patients have recovered and been discharged from home isolation or from facilities or hospitals in one day.
• India’s recovery rate rises to 77.32 percent, according to data released by the Ministry of Health.
• The fatality rate (CFR) due to Covid-19 fell to 1.72 percent, data from the Ministry of Health showed.
• According to the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 4,88,31,145 samples have been analyzed as of September 5 and 10,92,654 samples have been analyzed on Saturday.
• Maharashtra has reported the highest number of deaths at 26,276 in the last 24 hours. In the second worst hit in terms of deaths, Tamil Nadu recorded 7,748 deaths, followed by Karnataka with 6,298 in Karnataka, 4,538 in Delhi, 4,347 in Andhra Pradesh, 3,843 in Uttar Pradesh, 3,510 in West Bengal, 3,091 in Gujarat and 1,808 in Punjab.
• More than 70 percent of deaths occurred due to comorbidities, said the Ministry of Health.
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