Coronavirus India Updates: Active Cases Rise; Recoveries Cross 1-Crore Mark

Active coronavirus cases in India rose on Thursday, for the first time in over a month, at a time when the country is preparing to roll out an inoculation programme to stem the world’s second-worst outbreak.

Active cases rose to 2,28,083 from 2,27,546 , according to data released by the Union Health Ministry as of Jan. 7, 2021, as authorities reported over 20,000 new infections in the last 24 hours and less than 20,000 recoveries in the same time period. The curve inched upwards on Nov. 27 last.

The number of people who have tested positive for the new U.K. variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the country has climbed to 71, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. These 71 cases include the 58 which were announced by the ministry till Tuesday.

Total recoveries have crossed the 1-crore mark.

Key figures:

• Total number of confirmed coronavirus cases: 10395278
• Active cases: 228083
• Cured/discharged/migrated: 1,00,16,859
• Deaths: 1,50,336
• Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 20,346
• One-day recoveries: 19,587
• One-day deaths: 222

Global Virus Update

British medics will be able to give Covid-19 shots to hundreds of thousands of people every day by Jan. 15, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. Brazil surpassed 200,000 virus deaths, second only to the U.S., on a day when it reported the most infections of the pandemic.

New York, New Jersey, Florida and North Carolina are among states that reported daily records as Illinois became the fifth state to surpass 1 million infections. Fatalities in Arizona reached a high and those in California were just two deaths from the record set at the end of 2020.

Globally over 87.5 million people have been infected with coronavirus while over 1.8 have died.