Above 45,000 COVID-19 cases hit India in a day

India on Thursday recorded the highest single day spike of 45,720 fresh COVID-19 cases in 24 hours taking the total tally to 12,38,635, the Union Health Ministry data revealed.

With 1,129 fresh deaths the total death toll reached 29,861. A sigh of relief is that the recovery rate is at 63.18 per cent with as many as 7,82,607 cured, which is almost twice the number of active patients at 4,26,167.

India is the third-worst hit country and is now adding a lakh cases every three days.

The global tally of people infected with the coronavirus neared 15 million on Wednesday with the US being the worst hit pandemic hot-spot. More than 6,17,000 have succumbed to the infection worldwide.

United State President Donald Trump warned the pandemic would “get worse before it gets better.”

Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group Andrew Pollard said that India will have to manufacture a vaccine on an enormous scale to vaccinate a large proportion of the population. He also said that in order to ensure the availability of vaccines in every corner of the country, the government has to strategise a plan to deliver the vaccine on a scale that has never been seen before.