COVID-19 India Updates: India took 183 days to go through 16 lakh coronavirus cases. (File)
Coronavirus live updates: India reported a new record increase in coronavirus cases on Friday morning with more than 55,000 fresh infections, the Union Health Ministry said, adding that more than 6, 42 lakh samples had been tested on Thursday, which is the highest figure in one day to date.
The country’s Covid tally crossed 16 lakh cases after the last peak, just three days after crossing the 15 lakh mark. More than 10.58 lakh patients have recovered; the recovery rate stood at 64.54 percent on Friday morning.
With 779 new deaths in 24 hours, the Ministry of Health estimated the total number of deaths at 35,747, giving India the fifth highest death toll in the world behind the United States, Brazil, Great Britain and Mexico. This is the second day in a row that more than 50,000 new cases have been reported in 24 hours.
Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh overtook Delhi on Friday to become the third most coronavirus-affected state in the country. The state has added more than 30,000 cases to its tally over the past three days, bringing the total number of people infected with the deadly virus to 1,40,933, including 1,349 deaths.
Andhra Pradesh reported 10,376 cases and 60 deaths on Friday.
The national capital, which remained in third place behind Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu for weeks on the list, added 1,195 cases, bringing its total to 1,35,598.
Andhra Pradesh’s positivity rate soared to 7.22% due to the abnormal surge in the number of cases over the past three days, with an additional 30,636 cases.
As many as 3,822 patients recovered and were discharged from hospital within a day. Overall, the state now has 75,720 active cases after 63,864 were cured, the bulletin added.
Here are the updates on the coronavirus (COVID-19) cases:
Jharkhand reported 826 new positive COVID-19 cases and two new deaths on Friday, the State Department of Health said.
The total number of cases has now reached 11,314 including 6,894 active cases, 4,314 cases recovered and discharged and 106 deaths, according to the state health department.
According to data from the Union Ministry of Health and Family, with the highest one-day peak of 55,079 COVID-19 cases reported in the past 24 hours, India has crossed the bar from 16 lakh on Friday.
With the steady increase in COVID-19 cases, all government departments and Odisha subordinate offices will operate with 50 percent of the employee workforce (all staff, including Group A agents) on a monthly basis. August.
All departments will ensure that government work does not suffer, all state government offices will remain closed on Saturday in August, said an official order issued by the Department of General Administration and Complaints of the public.
Odisha’s COVID-19 case count broke the 31,000 mark on Friday with 1,499 more people testing positive for the infection, while eight more deaths brought the death toll from the disease to 177 in the State, said a health official.
The new cases were reported in 29 of the state’s 30 districts, he said.
With an average of 827 new cases added to the tally every day in July, the number of viruses in the state now stands at 31,877, the official said.
Odisha reported the third highest one-day peak in COVID-19 cases on Friday. The state recorded the highest one-day peak with 1,594 cases on July 3 and the second-highest peak of 1,503 infections on July 26.
Karnataka Minister BC Patil said on Friday he had tested positive for the coronavirus.
“The report confirmed to me to be corona positive. I am in home quarantine at my residence in Bangalore,” he said in a tweet.
“During a recent visit to Koppal district, five of the staff accompanying me were reportedly infected with coronavirus,” he tweeted.
Meanwhile, a total of 5,483 new COVID-19 cases and 84 deaths have been reported in Karnataka, the state health department informed on Friday.
