Record 507 COVID-19 deaths in single day in India

Web Desk

India recorded more than 500 fatalities due to the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the biggest single-day spike, taking its death toll to 17,400. 18,653 new infections pushed the new cases tally beyond 5.85 lakh, Union health ministry data showed on Wednesday.

The recovery rate from the coronavirus disease in India, the fourth worst-hit country in the world, improved to 59.43% as 13,157 patients were cured in the last 24 hours. There are 347,978 people who have been discharged from hospitals across the country.

There are 2,20,114 active cases of the viral disease in India on a day the government’s Unlock 2, or the second of a three-phase plan aimed at lifting restrictions imposed to stop the spread of infections comes into force.

Maharashtra continued to record rising Covid-19 cases as the worst-affected state’s climbed to 174,761 and the death toll to 7,855. Tamil Nadu, which has 90,167 infections and 1,201 deaths so far, is among the states which have added to the country’s caseload.

In Delhi, where the Centre has put in place a five-pronged approach to tackle the pandemic, has reported 87,360 Covid-19 cases and 2,742 fatalities. Gujarat, the fourth worst-hit state, has 32,557 and 1,846 deaths, according to central data.

There are 10,450,628 Covid-19 cases and 510,632 people have died due to the disease across the world, according to the Johns Hopkins University’s tracker.