On September 1, India’s COVID-19 caseload saw a spike of 69,921 new cases and 819 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The Health Ministry said that the country’s tally now stands at 36,91,167 including 7,85,996 active cases, 28,39,883 cured/discharged/migrated and 65,288 deaths.
The number of recovered patients has overtaken active cases by 3.61 times. The number of recovered patients has grown four times from the first week of July to the last week of August 2020.
India is the hardest-hit nation by coronavirus disease in Asia and is currently accounting for 30 per cent of the daily reported new COVID-19 cases and 20 per cent of daily deaths globally.
The Centre said that five states — Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh — have registered the highest number of Covid-19 cases and also the highest infection fatalities in the last 24 hours.
Within a day, these five states have reported 536 deaths which accounts for 65.4% of the deaths added to the total death tally.
