India reports new 69,878 COVID-19 cases, its biggest single-day spike.
India’s Coronavirus tally rises to over 29.75 lakhs, with nearly 70,000 infections in the last 24 hours.
Till 9 am on Saturday, India witnessed its biggest single-day spike in total COVID-19 cases and registered nearly 70,000 infections on a single day. With new 69,878 Coronavirus cases, the country’s total caseload increased to over 29.75 lakh, at 29,75,702. Cases in India have been the highest in the world in the last 18 days, even more than the US, and Brazil, which have a higher total count. Daily deaths due to the fatal virus continued to remain above 900 and in the last 24 hours, fresh 945 deaths were registered in the country, taking the death toll to 55,974.
Recovery rate gushes past 74 percent:
The total number of active coronavirus cases stands at 697,330 and a tally of 22,22,578 patients have recovered from the deadly disease, as per the latest data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Affairs. The ministry further revealed that the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) in the country dropped to 1.87 percent, and the recovery rate improved to 74 percent. Yesterday, a record of 62,282 patients were cured and declared Corona-free, and only 23.82 percent of cases in the nation are active.
WHO hopes of getting rid of the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years:
On Friday, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, from the WHO’s headquarters in Geneva, revealed to reporters that they hope to get rid of the novel COVID-19 pandemic in less than two years, which is faster than it took to get rid of the Spanish flu. He insisted that looking at the rate of spreading of the coronavirus; it should be possible to tame the fatal virus faster than the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918.
