New Delhi: India recorded its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases with 69,878 new patients registered in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said this morning.
The latest spike takes the India’s tally to 29,75,701 cases. About 22.22 lakh people have recovered so far.
The country, third worst-hit by the pandemic after the United States and Brazil, has been reporting the highest number of daily Covid cases in the world for the last 18 days.
Across India, 55,794 Covid-linked deaths have been registered so far; 945 patients have died since yesterday, according to the official data.
The recovery rate stood at 74.69 per cent this morning; while the positivity rate – an indicator of the prevalance of the disease- stood at 6.82 per cent.
Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh are the five worst-affected states in India by the outbreak.
The cumulative total of 3,44,91,073 samples have been tested up to August 21 with 10,23,836 samples being tested on Friday, the highest done in a day so far, Lokesh Sharma, scientist and media coordinator at ICMR said.
Meanwhile, the overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 22.8 million, while the deaths have increased to over 797,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
As of Saturday morning, the total number of cases stood at 22,864,873 and the fatalities rose to 797,787, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.
The US accounted for the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 5,621,035 and 175,350, respectively, according to the CSSE. Brazil came in the second place with 3,532,330 infections and 113,358 deaths.
