With India reporting 48,648 cases in the last 24 hours, the total number of coronavirus cases rose to 80.88 lakh on Friday. The country has been recording less than 50,000 infections for the last five days and the active cases have fallen below the six lakh mark, to a level seen in the first week of August. Also, the total number of fatalities has reached 1.21 lakh, 5,94,386 are active cases and 73,73,375 people have recovered.

The slower pace of daily infections and an improved recovery rate have led to a fairly drastic decline in active cases.

The Maharashtra government on Thursday extended the lockdown till November 30 without allowing any new activities.

Union Health Ministry has said, “India has exponentially scaled up its testing capacity from one in January to more than 10.65 cr at present. The very high testing has resulted in a continuously falling positivity rate. It is 7.54% presently.”

A total number of 10,77,28,088 samples were tested for COVID-19 on October 29. Of these, 11,64,648 samples were tested on Thursday, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

Globally, over 44 million people have been infected worldwide till now. More than one million have succumbed to the virus. The United States continues to be the worst-affected followed by India and Brazil.

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India has also maintained its global position with one of the lowest COVID-19 case fatality rates (CFR) when compared to several other countries.

While the global CFR stands at 2.97 per cent as on date, the comparative figure for India is 1.56 per cent, it said.

The deaths per million population in India is one of the lowest in the world. While the global average is 130 deaths per million population, India is reporting 73 deaths per million population, the ministry said.

More than one lakh people have died of coronavirus in India – the world’s second worst-hit country – as the country recorded 1,069 deaths and total case load crossed 64 lakh with 79,476 new cases, data released by the Health Ministry this morning showed.

The country has been reporting more than 1,000 deaths a day for the past month, with the exception of September 28, the government data shows.

The country now has 9,44,996 active cases and more than 54 lakh recoveries, Health Ministry data shows.

India is in the number one position in terms of the number of recovered coronavirus cases followed by Brazil and the US, according to the Johns Hopkins University, which has been compiling COVID-19 data from all over the world.

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As many as 648 fatalities were reported which increased the death toll to 28,732.

There are 4,11,133 active cases of the coronavirus infection currently in the country.

Maharashtra remains the worst affected state with 3,27,031 cases and 12,276 deaths. The second worst-hit state, Tamil Nadu has reported 1,80,643 covid-19 cases

Thirty states and Union Territories have COVID-19 positivity rate lower than that of the national average which stands at 8.07 percent, the Center said.

The Center said that its ultimate aim was to maintain the aggressive testing and bring down the positivity rate to below 5 percent.

As per the information provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research, the total number of samples tested upto July 21 is 1,47,24,546 including 3,43,243 samples that were tested on July 21.

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The number of recoveries stands at 6,12,814 while there are 3,31,146 active cases of coronavirus infection at present in the country.

Around 63.25 per cent of patients have recovered so far. Meanwhile as per the information provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research 1,27,39,490 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till July 15 .Out of these 3,26,826 samples were tested on July 15.

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According to the Union Health Ministry update, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country rose to 9,06,752. There are 3,11,565 active cases and 5,71,460 cured from the infection.

The recovery rate among COVID-19 patients has increased to 63.02%.

During the last 24 hours , 2,86,247 samples were tested as the testing lab network continues to expand. More than 1,194 labs have enabled people to undergo coronavirus tests.

Maharashtra remained the worst-hit state with 2,60,924 cases and 10,482 casualties. Tamil Nadu hit the 1 lakh mark in coronavirus cases with a total of 1,42,798 cases and 2,302 deaths.

With 1,246 new coronavirus cases and 40 deaths in the last 24 hours, the national capital recorded a total tally of 1,13,740 cases and 3,411 deaths.

On the global front, the overall number of global COVID-19 cases has surpassed the 13 million mark, while the deaths have increased to more than 5,72,000.

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