Coronavirus India: The recovery rate stood at 62.86% this morning.
New Delhi:
The number of coronaviruses in India has jumped to 10.77 lakh cases this morning after 38,902 new patients have been registered in the past 24 hours, the country’s biggest single-day jump in new infections, said the Union Department of Health this morning. In the past 24 hours, 543 deaths from the highly contagious disease have been reported, bringing the number of deaths from COVID-19 to 26,816. The recovery rate was 62.86% this morning. India is the third country most affected by the pandemic after the United States and Brazil.
Here are 10 developments in this great story:
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Assam has prohibited the inter-district movement of individuals from July 22 until further notice to prevent the community spread of COVID-19 in the state. The state government, however, decided not to extend the foreclosure for three weeks in Guwahati.
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Maharashtra, the state most affected by the coronavirus pandemic in the country, crossed the three lakh-marks on Saturday while its capital, Mumbai, crossed the dark stage of a lakh with an addition of 1186 new patients to the in the past 24 hours. says the health department.
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Delhi reported a one-day peak coronavirus on Saturday of 1,475 cases, bringing its total to 1,211,582 cases. This is the eighth consecutive day that the national capital has recorded the daily increase in COVID-19 in the range of 1,000 to 2,000 cases. The city’s total recoveries amounted to 1,021,274, with 1,973 people healed in the past 24 hours.
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The Karnataka government has ordered private hospitals in Bengaluru, the state capital, to reserve 50% of beds for the treatment of patients with coronavirus, as it strives to slow the spread of the virus.
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Tamil Nadu reported its highest day-long peak in COVID-19 infections on Saturday, as well as the number of daily deaths, with the total number of infections exceeding 1.65 lakh.
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With the increase in positive coronavirus cases, the government of Kerala is establishing Covid frontline treatment centers across the state to strengthen medical infrastructure, said Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
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A new one-day record of 3,963 new cases of COVID-19 pushed the total number in Andhra Pradesh to 44,609 on Saturday while 52 patients died, the highest in a day so far.
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West Bengal reported more than 2,000 new cases of COVID-19 in a single day for the first time on Saturday, when the state count had passed the 40,000 mark, according to the health department of the State.
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The number of confirmed infections worldwide has exceeded 14.2 million, including 3.7 million in the United States. There are more than 2 million in Brazil and more than 1 million in India. The World Health Organization again reported a single-day record of new infections with 2,59,848.
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The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 6 lakh people worldwide since its onset in China late last year.
