India on Friday breached its own previous day record of single-day spike of over 75,000 cases, by registering an unprecedented 77,266 fresh coronavirus infections in 24 hours, taking the Covid-19 tally to 33,87,500. As the test rate has increased, the country has now added almost 4 lakh cases in five days. In fact, India’s journey to over 33 lakh cases took precisely six months and 28 days since the emergence of the first case in the country on January 30.
The toll surpassed 60,000 to touch 61,529 mark with 1,057 more fatalities on Friday, said the Union Health Ministry.
India though the third worst-hit at present, after the US and Brazil, has been reporting the highest number of daily coronavirus cases in the world for the last three weeks. No other country has reported such continued surge since the pandemic surfaced in China’s Wuhan city in December 2019.
The recovery rate in India was recorded at 76.28 per cent, while the Covid-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.82 per cent.
There are 7,42,023 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 21.90 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated. India’s Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 and went past 30 lakh on August 23. On July 17, the country had logged 10 lakh cases, which then doubled in 20 days on August 7, and added another 10 lakh on August 23. According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 3,94,77,848 samples have been tested up to August 27 with 9,01,338 samples being tested on Thursday.
In India the fatality rate, which is the proportion of people who die from the disease among individuals diagnosed, has dropped to 1.81 per cent, the Health Ministry said. The positivity rate, which is the percentage of samples coming out to be positive out of the tests conducted, stands at 8.5 per cent.
The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 2 crore 43 lakh, while the deaths have increased to over 8,29,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The US accounted for the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 58,63,363 and 1,80,595 respectively. Brazil came in the second place with 37,61,391 infections and 1,18,649 deaths.