A total of 585 people succumbed to the deadly virus, taking the overall fatalities to 1,31,578. However the country’s new deaths per million due to coronavirus disease in the past seven days has continued to remain the lowest in the world.

The total active cases stand at 4,43,303 after a decrease of 3,502 in the last 24 hours.
The total discharged cases are at 83,83,603 with 48,493 new recoveries in the last 24 hours.

For the 12th day today, India has reported less than 50,000 daily coronavirus cases. According to Health ministry, the recovery rate now stands at 93.58%.

The Indian Council of Medical Research said that a total of 12,85,08,389 samples have been tested for Covid-19 up to 18 November. Of these, 10,28,203 samples were tested yesterday, the ICMR added.

As covid-19 cases and death continues to rise in Delhi , Tata group in collaboration with Apollo group of hospitals launched an indigenous testing kit based on the gene-editing technology CRISPR called Feluda.

The test is likely to be cheaper than the current gold standard RT-PCR and equally accurate, helping in scaling up Covid-19 testing as it would need a machine that is widely available with laboratories and science institutions.

The global infection tally has gone up to 56,187,563 with the United States continuing to report the maximum number of Covid-19 cases at 11,525,540. The virus has claimed 1,348,600 lives across the globe, according to Johns Hopkins University’s tracker.

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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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