Coronavirus: 46,253 fresh COVID-19 cases in India, 20% higher than yesterday; 83.13 lakh total cases so far, 1,23,611 deaths

New COVID-19 Infections Rise By 20% In A Day, India Tally At 83.13 Lakh

Across the world, there have been a total of 4,73,94,468 confirmed coronavirus cases, data shows.

New Delhi: With a jump of 46,253 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the country's overall coronavirus case numbers touched 83.13 lakh, Health Ministry data shared this morning shows. The daily case count rose by 20 per cent, nearing the national weekly average of 45,000, after dropping to almost 38,000 on Monday. Deaths related to COVID-19 also rose marginally over Monday's figure to 514. With this, 1,23,611 have lost their lives to the highly viral disease. The average daily Covid deaths have declined from 1,165 recorded during the Covid peak in mid-September to about 500 in the past week, the health ministry has said.

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Active cases in India dropped to 5.3 lakh, but the fall in numbers has slowed as coronavirus case curve shows signs of flattening instead of a steady decline.
More than 76.5 lakh people have successfully fought off the disease, with 53,357 people having been discharged in the last 24 hours pushing the recovery rate to 92 per cent.
According to the latest numbers, Maharashtra has the highest number of coronavirus cases at 16,92,693, of which 1.6 lakh are active and 44,248 have died.
Kerala, Delhi and West Bengal - three of the five states with highest daily figures - and Manipur have shown an increase in the number of coronavirus infection since October 3. Kerala and Delhi recorded 6,862 and 6,725 cases respectively, followed by Maharashtra (4,909), West Bengal (3,981) cases and Andhra Pradesh, which replaced Karnataka with 2,849 cases.
Delhi's 24-hour tally has been the highest yet with ICU beds in private and government-run hospitals filling up fast. The Delhi government is now mulling collecting samples from people while they are at restaurants, markets and other public places to strengthen its surveillance mechanism.
In the past month, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh were the top states which registered a decline in the number of COVID-19 cases, the government has said.
Almost 61 per cent of all deaths in this period were recorded in Maharashtra (120), Chhattisgarh (58), West Bengal (56), Delhi (48), and Tamil Nadu (31).
Lakshadweep, Mizoram and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu have the lowest number coronavirus cases with 0, 2,893 and 3,257, respectively.
India remains the second worst hit country in the world with 3.8 per cent positivity rate, followed by the United States, where the case count is nearing the 1 crore mark.
Globally, more than 4.7 crore confirmed cases of coronavirus have been registered, with 12 lakh deaths.