India’s COVID-19 tally breaches 2 million, the biggest single-day spike of over 60,000 cases.
The death toll in India rises to 41,585 and cases tally increases to 2,027,074, due to the novel COVID-19 virus.
On Friday, India reported its biggest single-day spike in the number of Coronavirus infections with more than 62,000 new cases, and in-process breached the 2-million mark. In the last 24 hours, fresh 62,538 COVID-19 infections were registered in the country, which took the total tally of coronavirus cases to 2,027,074. For a ninth-consecutive day, cases in the nation have been over 52,000, daily. Deaths in India have been ranging from 700-800 since the last week and yesterday new 889 causalities were reported, taking the death toll to 41,585.
Infections in India rise by a million in just three weeks:
India had crossed the one-million cases on July 16, and in just three weeks-time, infections in the country soared to breach the 2-million infections. Since July 16, almost 38 percent of the new cases have been contributed by Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Bihar. Before July 16, these five-states contributed just 19% of India’s COVID-19 tally (one million). India marks the grim milestone with being third in the worst-affected countries list, with Brazil at 2.8 million cases in second and the US with nearly 5 million infections.
The recovery rate improves to 67.98 percent:
As per the latest data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Affairs, the total number of active coronavirus cases stands at 607,384, and 1,378,105 patients have recovered from the fatal virus. The recovery rate in India improved to 67.98%. The ministry’s data also reveals that India’s case fatality rate (CFR) has lowered to 2.07 percent.
BMC makes 14-day home isolation compulsory on arrival:
The Brinhanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Friday announced 14-day mandatory home isolation for all domestic passengers arriving in Mumbai. Government officials desiring exemption will have to inform the corporation by writing the details, two working days before the arrival. Mumbai reported 910 fresh infections yesterday and took the caseload to 120,165 with 6645 fatalities in the island-city.
