Country reports 1/4th of total daily coronavirus cases across world
India has now started reporting one-fourth of the total cases recorded across the world on a daily basis. The country has emerged as the biggest global hotspot and its daily average is turning out to be higher than the combined daily total of more than 140 nations of Europe, Africa, Eastern Mediterranean, and Western Pacific.
While both the USA and Brazil have started showing sign of stabilising at around 45,000 new cases and 1,000 deaths every day, it is only India which is touching new heights daily.
On Saturday, 2.61 lakh cases were reported globally, out of which India alone accounted for 70,068, cases, which is more than 25 per cent of the total cases.
On the same day, entire Europe (44 countries) added 37,000 new cases, Africa (54 nations) totaled 7,626 new cases, Eastern Mediterranean nations (22) contributed 12,847 cases and Western Pacific countries chipped in with 6,647 new cases. Similarly, minus India, the entire South East Asia recorded just around 5,000 cases. Put together these countries recorded around the same number of cases on Saturday as India.
India is now also close to recording the biggest single-day spike in the world.
The USA recorded this dubious honour when it listed 74,325 cases on July 26. Since then the USA has recorded a lesser number of cases on a daily basis. On Saturday, it logged in 44,000 cases, the same as Brazil, which also seemed to have plateaued out.
India, the USA and Brazil put together now account for nearly 60 per cent of the daily addition of new cases.
The way India is seeing a daily surge, it should take not more than 20 days before it can replace Brazil from the second spot behind the USA. Brazil is ahead of India by nearly 5 lakh cases, and India is recording nearly 25,000 cases more than Brazil every day.
Despite signs of a resurgence of new cases in Europe the facts remains that coronavirus is now majority confined to the USA and South American countries including Brazil, which put together have around 1.35 lakh cases daily. Together with India, they account for more than 2 lakh cases on daily basis, or closes to 75 percent of the global cases.
It clearly shows that the rest of the world is now able to contain the disease in a big way.
India crossed three-million Covid-19 count on Saturday with yet another day of a huge spike of around 70,000 new cases.
India added the last one million cases in just 16 days. The country had crossed two-million count on August 6. On the other hand, the country went from one million to two million cases in 19 days between July 16 and August 5. India is also adding around 1000 deaths daily.
The country took nearly five-and-half month from January 31, the day India registered its first Covid-19 cases in Kerala to one million counts on July 16.
