For the last three weeks, India has been reporting the highest number of daily coronavirus cases in the world putting it ahead of the US and Brazil. India, the third worst-hit country on Thursday recorded over 75,000 cases breaching the highest ever daily tally by the US, and recorded the worst spike so far globally.
The fresh cases have pushed the country’s coronavirus tally to over 33.1 lakh cases while the toll breached the 60,000 mark with 1,017 more fatalities in the last 24 hours.
According to the Union Health Ministry data, a record 75,760 infections were added in a day taking the total coronavirus caseload to 33,10,234. The death toll climbed to 60,472 with 1,023 fatalities being reported in 24 hours, as per the data.
With a total of 25,23,771 patients having recuperated so far, the recovery rate was recorded at 76.24 per cent while the COVID-19 case fatality rate has declined to 1.83 per cent.
There are 7,25,991 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 21.93 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.
India’s cumulative tests has also reached nearly 3.9 crore on Thursday while 9,24,998 lakh tests were conducted in last 24 hours across the country.
This has spurred the total tests to 3,85,76,510.
“With more patients recovering and being discharged from hospitals and home isolation (in case of mild and moderate cases), India’s total Covid-19 recoveries have surpassed cross 2.5 million on Thursday,” said the Government.
Recovery of 25,23,771 patients has been made possible because of effective implementation of the policy of the centre-led policies that have been effectively been implemented by the State/UT governments. At least, 56,013 Covid patients have recovered in the last 24 hours while India’s recovery rate amongst the Covid-19 patients today stands at 76.24 per cent, said the Ministry.