For 11 in a row, the number of people recovering from Covid in Delhi has remained higher than newly detected infections (Express Photo by Praveen Khanna)
Coronavirus India News Live Updates: The Health Ministry on Saturday said the total number of recoveries of India’s coronavirus patients has exceeded the active cases by 2.95 lakh. The number of active cases are 3,58,692, while close to 18,000 people have recuperated from the disease in the last 24 hours taking the the number of recoveries to 6,53,750.
Maharashtra, the worst-affected state, crossed the three-lakh mark on Saturday with Mumbai reporting over 1 lakh coronavirus cases so far. The national capital, on the other hand is projecting an uplifting trend. For 17 of the last 20 days, including 11 in a row now, the number of people recovering from Covid in Delhi has remained higher than newly detected infections — no other state has come close to such a trend.
Meanwhile, the AIIMS Ethics Committee has given its nod for a human clinical trial of the indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin following which the premier hospital is likely to begin the exercise by enrolling healthy volunteers from Monday.
Globally, over 14 million people have been infected with the virus and 602,656 have died. It has taken just four days to climb to 14 million cases from 13 million recorded on July 13.
Maharashtra's tally breached 3 lakh-mark and reached 3,00,937 as the state recorded 8,348 fresh cases
The colonial-era Kasturba Gandhi Hospital was set up in 1892 for the treatment of infectious diseases. Since then, it has been witness to Mumbai’s several battles, big and small, against infectious disease outbreaks including smallpox, plague, H1N1. Right now, the hospital with its high-tech lab, is the beating heart of the city’s battle against Covid-19. Read more here