India’s COVID-19 death toll crosses 50,000, with total infections over 26 lakh.
India becomes the fourth-worst affected Coronavirus country in terms of total deaths; recovery rate at 72.51 percent.
On Monday morning, India reported a grim milestone of logging over 50,000 deaths in the country due to the novel COVID-19 virus. Fresh 941 deaths were registered in the last 24 hours, which took the country’s death toll to 50,921. This means that India has become the fourth worst affected nation in the world, in total deaths, and has surpassed the United Kingdom’s death toll. India is now only behind the United States, Brazil, and Mexico.
India’s Coronavirus tally breaches the 26-lakh mark:
In the last 24 hours, India registered fresh 57,981 COVID-19 cases, which meant that the country’s coronavirus tally has breached the 26-lakh mark. The total number of infections now stands at 26,47,663. For a thirteenth consecutive day, India has reported the highest number of daily cases in the world, more than the US and Brazil. The first COVID-19 case was reported on 30th January in Kerala, and in the next 200 days, cases have spiraled up to over 26 lakh.
Improvement in the Recovery rate and testing rate:
As per the latest data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, a total of 19,19,842 patients have recovered from the deadly disease, and the total active coronavirus infections increased to 676,900. The recovery rate in India has improved to 72.51 percent. Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday, revealed that more than three crore samples had been tested in the nations to date. On Sunday, ICMR stated, that about 7.31 lakh samples were tested.
Globally over 21.6 million people have been infected with the fatal virus and more than 774,000 patients have succumbed to death, due to the coronavirus.
