Increased cases of coronavirus infection in the country have come up once again. On Thursday, the highest number of 69,652 new cases were reported. At the same time, the number of infected patients has reached 28 lakh 36 thousand. But the good thing is that the number of people recovering from the infection has increased to about 21 lakh and the investigation has increased.

According to the data updated on Thursday morning, the death toll has risen to 53,866 with 977 deaths in the last 24 hours. Cases of infections have increased to 28,36,926 in the country, of which 6,86,395 people are undergoing treatment and 20,96,665 people have recovered from the disease after treatment. Foreign citizens are also involved in total cases of infection. According to the data, the rate of recovery of patients has increased to 73.91 percent, while the death rate has come down and it is 1.90 percent. At the same time, 24.20 percent of the patients are still being treated.

More than nine lakh samples examined in the last 24 hours

According to data released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 3,26,61,252 samples were tested across the country as of 19 August. Out of which 9,18,470 samples were tested in one day on Thursday. The positivity rate is less than eight percent.

According to the Health Ministry data, out of 977 people who lost their lives in the last 24 hours, 346 were from Maharashtra. After this 126 of Karnataka, 116 of Tamil Nadu, 86 of Andhra Pradesh, 53-53 of Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, 23 of Punjab, 18 of Madhya Pradesh, 17 of Gujarat, 15 of Jharkhand, 14 of Uttarakhand, 12 of Rajasthan, Bihar. And 11–11 people from Jammu and Kashmir.

Apart from these, 10 people each died in Assam, Haryana, Odisha, and Telangana, nine in Delhi, eight in Goa, seven in Kerala, six in Puducherry, three in Chhattisgarh, and one each in Sikkim, Chandigarh, and Ladakh.

The ministry said that so far 21,033 people have died in Maharashtra, out of total 53,866 deaths due to Kovid-19 in the country. In addition, 6,123 in Tamil Nadu, 4,327 in Karnataka, 4,235 in Delhi, 2,906 in Andhra Pradesh, 2,837 in Gujarat, 2,638 in Uttar Pradesh, 2,581 in West Bengal, and 1,159 in Madhya Pradesh have died due to coronavirus infection.

According to the figures, 921 people in Punjab, 910 in Rajasthan, 729 in Telangana, 572 in Jammu and Kashmir, 567 in Haryana, 487 in Bihar, 372 in Odisha, 277 in Jharkhand, 213 in Assam, 182 in Kerala, and 178 in Uttarakhand John died due to coronavirus infection.

161 in Chhattisgarh, 129 in Puducherry, 124 in Goa, 65 in Tripura, 31 in Chandigarh, 30 in Andaman-Nicobar Islands, 19 in Himachal Pradesh, 18 in Manipur, 18 in Ladakh, eight in Nagaland, six in Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh. Kovid-19 has died in five, three in Sikkim, two in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman-Diu. The Health Ministry said that more than 70 percent of the people who died due to infection have already had any disease. was.