In a single day, 579 coronavirus positive patients succumbed to the Covid-19 infection, according to the Health Ministry data.

India stood second behind the United States in terms of total cases of coronavirus. The country tops in terms of the number of recovered cases and third in terms of fatalities globally behind the US and Brazil.

India’s total Covid-19 tally has climbed to 75,50,273. India has also seen a dip of 11,256 in its active cases since Sunday. As of Monday morning, there are 7,72,055 active cases of coronavirus in India. So far, 66,63,608 have recovered from the infection and 1,14,610 people have died from the coronavirus.

Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have reported the highest number of cases. However, infections are rising rapidly in states like Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Yet, India’s recovery rate continues to rise and now stands at 88 percent.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that 9,50,83,976 samples were tested for COVID-19 in the country till yesterday (October 18). Of these, 8,59,786 were tested on Sunday (October 18).

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The country’s active cases- which have been below one-million for seventeen consecutive days- further dropped below 9,00,000 on Friday while over 5.9 million people have recovered from the disease so far. The difference between active cases and recoveries has now climbed 5,012,477. The total active cases stands at 8,93,592.

India’s recovery rate increased marginally to 85.5 percent and case fatality rate stood steady at 1.5 percent.

However health experts in some states have warned of a sharp spike in infections ahead of the festival season and winter months.

Doctors in Kolkata urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to take stricter measures to restrict public gathering during Durga Puja as it might lead to increase in the number of cases. Besides a report drafted by the National Center for Disease Control under the guidance of NITI Aayog health expert DR VK Paul has warned that Delhi needs to be prepared well for the spike of coronavirus infections, taking into account the upcoming winter-season related respiratory problems and also due to festive gatherings.

Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat are some of the states which continue to be worst-hit from the pandemic. Maharashtra’s Covid-19 tally is nearing the 1.5 million mark and 39,430 people have succumbed to the infection.

11,68,705 samples tested for Covid-19 on October 8. Total 8,46,34,680 samples tested in the country up to October 8: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 36.4 million, while the deaths have soared to more than 10,60,860, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Friday morning, the total number of cases stood at 3,64,35,290 and the fatalities increased to 10,60,869. The US is the worst-hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 76,03,746 and 2,12,716. India comes in second place in terms of cases at 68,35,655, while the country’s death toll soared to 1,05,526.

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There has been a reduction in the number of active cases, indicating the daily recoveries exceeded the number of infections. India’s total number of active cases has come down to 9,34,427 on Monday.

The country has been posting high level of daily recoveries for the past few weeks and 76,737 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours. Now 5,586,703 people have been cured so far taking the national recovery rate to 84.34%.

The new recoveries have exceeded the fresh cases of the coronavirus disease in the recent days. India has the highest number of recoveries in the world at the moment. The number of deaths in India has also witnessed a marginal dip in the past couple of days.

Maharashtra, which has the highest number of active cases in the country, has also contributed the highest number to the newly-recovered cases followed by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

The government also said that 10 states and Union Territories account for 77. 11% of the active cases in the country. Out of the total new cases, 78% were concentrated in 10 states and Union territories with Maharashtra contributing more than 14,000 to the new cases. Karnataka and Kerala reported 9,886 and 7834 new cases, respectively, according to government data.

India has exceeded the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations on daily testing per million by nearly six times, according to the health ministry. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that nearly 8 crore samples have been tested for Covid-19 in the country up to October 4. ICMR said a total of 7,99,82,394 samples have been tested so far. Of these, 9,89,860 samples were tested yesterday.

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Now the country’s total coronavirus case stands at 51,18,253.

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— ICMR (@ICMRDELHI) September 17, 2020

According to Union health ministry update on Thursday morning, the number of active cases crossed the million mark and currently stand at 10,09,976 whereas 40,25,079 patients have been discharged from hospitals.

The recovery rate has further improved to 78.53 per cent, the health ministry said.
It further said that nearly 59 per cent of the new recoveries came from five states – 23.41 per cent from Maharashtra (19,423 recoveries); and a cumulative 35.5 per cent from Andhra Pradesh (9,628 recoveries), Karnataka (7,406), Uttar Pradesh (6,680) and Tamil Nadu (5,735).

Twenty-seven states and union territories are reporting recovery rates of more than 70 per cent, the ministry highlighted.

Meanwhile, Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) on Wednesday received the approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to resume clinical trials for the Covid-19 vaccine candidate developed by United Kingdom’s Oxford University and AstraZeneca.

The trials in India were paused last week after a trial subject in the United Kingdom developed an unexplained severe adverse reaction.

On September 16, the Supreme Court said that the central government has approved the use of Remdesivir and Fabiparivir as medicines to treat the coronavirus disease.

The top court was hearing a plea by the CBI against ten Indian pharmaceutical firms for manufacturing and selling these two medicines to treat the coronavirus disease.

Globally, nearly 30 million people have been infected with as many as 939,427 fatalities. The United States continued to the worst affected followed by India and Brazil. India, however, remained on top of the recoveries chart.

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With 1, 089 fresh deaths, the toll reached 69, 561. At present, India has 8,46,395 active cases and as many as 31,07,233 people have recovered pushing the recovery rate to 77.2 percent.

India has been reporting more than 80,000 cases perday for the last three days now. India is now the third country after US and Brazil to record 40 lakh cases.

The COVID-19 case fatality rate due to the novel coronavirus infection has further declined to 1.73 percent.

It took 110 days for the Covid-19 cases in India to reach one lakh while it had taken 59 days more to go past the 10-lakh post.

Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh are the five states which reported the highest number of cases in the last 24 hours. These five states account for over 62 per cent of the active cases, according to the Health Ministry.

15 districts across these states have been exhibiting higher active caseload, fatality rates and a surge in COVID cases for the past four weeks. The Centre has now asked them to curb chain of transmission and bring mortality rate below 1 per cent.

Maharashtra reported its highest single-day spike of 19,218 new cases on Friday. The number of COVID-19 cases in the state now stand at 8,63,062. The state government will launch a state-wide campaign to screen 2.25 crore families for possible COVID-19.

After a brief drop, Delhi has seen a rise in the number of COVID-19 cases over the last few days. The national capital on Friday reported 2,914 fresh infections, its highest one-day spike in 69 days. Delhi now has over 1.85 lakh cases, while the death count jumped to 4,513, authorities said.

Now India is just 70,000 cases behind Brazil, the world’s second worst affected nation after the United States. The South American country, which has reported 40,91,801 cases so far, has showing initial signs of decrease in the spread of virus.

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India’s coronavirus case tally crossed the 30 lakh-mark and settled at 30,44,940 on Saturday, 16 days after crossing the 20 lakh-mark and eight days after breaching the 25 lakh-mark.

With this, the covid-19 recovery rate stands at 75% and the case fatality rate declines to 1.85%.

Maharashtra has 1,71,859 active cases, the highest in the country followed by Andhra Pradesh with 89,742 active cases.

As many as 6,09,917 samples were tested on August 23 while a total of 3,59,02,137 samples have been tested so far.

The Union Health Ministry said the gap between recoveries and COVID-19 active cases continues to widen as the recoveries are more than three times the active cases.

Phase-2 clinical trials of the vaccine being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca would begin this week. The trials are being conducted by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India, which has an agreement with AstraZeneca to manufacture and market this vaccine for low and middle-income countries, including India.

Globally, infections have crossed the 23 million-mark with over 8 lakh deaths.US President Donald Trump, meanwhile, said a treatment based on blood plasma donated by people who’ve recovered from COVID-19 will be expanded, even before researchers fully understand how well it works. “This is a powerful therapy,” Trump said at a White House news conference. “Today’s action will dramatically expand access to this treatment.” The US Food and Drug Administration confirmed Sunday that it had cleared what’s known as convalescent plasma for use in certain patients

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