Coronavirus Outbreak: With 64,531 new cases, India's COVID-19 tally nears 28 lakh
With more than 64,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count on Wednesday crossed the 27.67 lakh-mark, while the death toll has crossed the 52,000-mark as well.
Mortuary workers prepare to transport the body of a person who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi (Reuters Photo)
With more than 64,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count on Wednesday crossed the 27.67 lakh-mark, while the death toll has crossed the 52,000-mark as well.
At 9:30 AM on this day, the COVID-19 tally in the country has reached 27,67,274 cases, which include 6,76,514 active cases; 20,37,871 cured, discharged, or migrated patients, and 52,889 deaths.
According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, as many as 54,531 new COVID-19 cases and 1,092 deaths were reported in the country in the last 24 hours, marking a significant spike.
Total #COVID19 Cases in India (as on August 19, 2020)
73.64% Cured/Discharged/Migrated (2,037,870) 24.45% Active cases (676,514) 1.91% Deaths (52,889)
Total COVID-19 confirmed cases = Cured/Discharged/Migrated+Active cases+Deaths
— #IndiaFightsCorona (@COVIDNewsByMIB) August 19, 2020
Total coronavirus cases in the worst-hit state of Maharashtra has crossed the 6.15 lakh-mark and registered 6,15,477 confirmed cases as of Wednesday.
Maharashtra is followed by Tamil Nadu with 3,49,654 cases. The state crossed Andhra Pradesh to take up second place in the list due to a recent massive surge in the number of cases.
Andhra Pradesh is third on the list with 3,06,261 cases.
After Andhra Pradesh comes Karnataka, where the COVID-19 figure stands at 2,40,948 cases with 1,56,949 patients recovered, and 4,201 fatalities. Uttar Pradesh has reported 1,62,434 cases of which 1,09,607 have recovered and 2,585 patients are dead.
Delhi has reported 1,54,741 positive cases so far of which 1,39,447 patients have recovered and 4,226 patients have lost their lives due to the virus. In West Bengal, as many as 1,22,753 people have confirmed COVID-19, of which 92,690 recovered and 2,528 people succumbed to it.
In Kerala, which reported the country's first COVID-19 case, 47,898 people have been detected positive for coronavirus so far.
Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has informed that the total samples tested up to 18th August is 3,17,42,782, which includes the 8,01,518 samples that were tested yesterday.