India's COVID cases up by 34, 956 after crossing 1 mn-mark

A day after sprinting past the 1 million-mark in COVID-19 cases, India on Friday clocked in its biggest single-day surge of 34, 956 cases.

The total number of infections now stands at 10,03,832, while the death toll has mounted to 25,602 with the highest number of 687 fatalities recorded in a day, the data updated at 8 am on Friday showed.

A total of 22,942 people recuperated in the past 24 hours, the highest number of recoveries in a day, taking the total number of recovered cases to 6,35,756, while there are 3,42,473 active COVID-19 cases presently.

“Thus, around 63.33 per cent of patients have recovered so far,” an official told PTI.
It took 110 days for the COVID-19 cases in the country to reach one lakh, just 59 days more to go past the nine-lakh mark and three days for it to cross the 10-lakh mark.

This is the sixth consecutive day when the cases increased by more than 28,000.

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According to ICMR, a cumulative total of 1,30,72,718 samples have been tested up to July 16 with 3,33,228 samples being tested on Thursday.

India ranks 106th with 658 cases per million. Cases per million population in India are four to eight times less than European countries.

COVID-19 cases per million in Russia and US are eight and 16 times respectively the corresponding figure in India, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control till July 15, the ministry said in a tweet.

Of the 687 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 266 are from Maharashtra, 104 from Karnataka, 69 from Tamil Nadu, 58 from Delhi, 40 from Andhra Pradesh, 34 from Uttar Pradesh, 23 from West Bengal, 17 from Bihar, 16 from Jammu and Kashmir, 10 each from Telangana and Gujarat and nine from Punjab. Rajasthan has reported eight fatalities followed by Madhya Pradesh with seven deaths, Jharkhand four, Haryana three, Assam, Kerala and Odisha two each, while Chhattisgarh, Goa and Puducherry have registered a fatality each.
The Health Ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.

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Maharashtra has reported the highest number of cases at 2,84,281 followed by Tamil Nadu at 1,56,369, Delhi at 1,18,645, Karnataka at 51,422, Gujarat at 45,481, Uttar Pradesh at 43,441 and Telangana at 41,018.

The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 38,044 in Andhra Pradesh, 36,117 in West Bengal, 27,174 in Rajasthan, 24,002 in Haryana, 21,764 in Bihar and 20,378 in Madhya Pradesh.

(With inputs from agencies)