Coronavirus: India's COVID-19 cases cross 50 lakh with over 90,000 new cases; 82,066 deaths with 1,290 in 24 hours

India's Coronavirus Cases Cross 50 Lakh; 1,290 Deaths, Highest In A Day

The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

New Delhi: With a positivity rate of 8.06 per cent, India reported 90,123 new cases taking its COVID-19 case tally past the 50-lakh mark. The country also reported 1,290 deaths in the last 24 hours - the highest in a day, the Union Health Ministry said. The number of people who have died of the disease now stands at 82,066 with a case fatality rate of 1.63 per cent. More than 39 lakh people stand cured with a recovery rate of 78.52 per cent. Almost 83,000 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours, bringing the total recoveries closer to the number of new cases. Only 20 per cent, or 9,95,933 cases, are active.

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India, which has been reporting the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world since August, took 230 to hit the 50-lakh mark with the country recording more than 90,000 new cases every day for the past week, barring Tuesday.
Maharashtra remains the worst affected state by the pandemic with a tally of 10.7 lakh cases as it reported more than 17,000 new cases again.
Close to half (48.8 per cent) of the active cases are concentrated in three states -- Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Kerala and Telangana contribute close to a quarter (24.4 per cent) of the active cases, the ministry said.
More than 37 per cent of cumulative deaths reported so far in the country are from Maharashtra. The state reported 34.44 per cent of the deaths in the last 24 hours, the ministry said on Tuesday.
Karnataka reported more than 8,200 new cases, most of them from its capital. Bengaluru now has more Covid cases than Mumbai, surpassed only by Delhi and Pune.
Delhi's COVID-19 tally mounted to over 2.25 lakh after 4,263 fresh cases were reported on Tuesday. Thirty-six fatalities pushed the death count to 4,806, according to the latest bulletin issued by the Delhi health department.
A sero-prevalance survey conducted in Delhi in the first week of August has found that 30 per cent, or 79 of the 257, people who recovered from COVID-19 did not have antibodies against the virus, making them vulnerable to re-infection.
Worldwide, almost 3 crore people have been infected by SARS-CoV-2, and more than 9.23 lakh people have lost their lives to the pandemic since it surfaced in China late last year.
In terms of recoveries, India is in the pole position, followed by Brazil and the US, according to the Johns Hopkins University which has been compiling COVID-19 data from all over the world.
India is the second worst-hit nation in terms of COVID-19 cases after the US. It is in the third spot in fatalities after the US and Brazil, according to Johns Hopkins University data.