More than 17,000 patients have died in India since the start of the pandemic.
New Delhi:
The coronavirus count in India has passed the six lakh mark after more than 19,000 new infections and 434 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours. So far, more than 3.5 lakh of patients have recovered. The country’s average positivity rate was 8.34% this morning; the recovery rate was 59.51%.
More than 90 lakh samples have been recorded since January, when India reported its first coronavirus patient. The country has a population of almost 130 crores. On Wednesday, around 2.29 lakh samples were tested across the country.
It took India – the fourth country most affected by the pandemic – 110 days to cross the threshold of a lakh in cases of coronavirus. Since May 19, when the count was 1,011,139 infections, there has been a huge increase every day in new patients. The country crossed the 2 lakh mark on June 3; he recorded a total of 3 lakh cases over the next 10 days. India had registered 4 cases of lakh as of June 21. On June 27, the total was 5.08 cases in total.
In the past 24 hours, five states – Maharashtra (5,537), Tamil Nadu (3,882), Delhi (2,442), Karnataka (1,272) and Telangana (1,018) – reported the highest number of new patients with coronavirus.
Maharashtra (198), Tamil Nadu (63) and Delhi (61) – the most affected states in India – also recorded the highest number of coronavirus-related deaths, followed by Gujarat (21) and l ‘Uttar Pradesh (21).
