India records biggest single-day spike of 69,878 Coronavirus cases; tally nears 3 million

India recorded its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases with 69,878 new cases registered in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed this morning. The latest increase in the COVID-19 cases takes India's tally to 29,75,701 cases. About 22.22 lakh people have recovered so far.

In India, 55,794 COVID-19 deaths have been registered so far. 945 patients have died since yesterday, according to the official data. The recovery rate stood at 74.69 percent this morning as record 63,631 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours. There are 2,222,577 people who have been cured of the coronavirus disease till date. The positivity rate stood at 6.82 percent.

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The health ministry informed that India has crossed the milestone of conducting 1 million tests every day to detect Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes the coronavirus disease.

India’s case fatality rate (CFR) “is maintained below the global average”, the health ministry said on Friday. “It is on a continuous positive slide and currently stands at 1.89%,” it further added.

Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh are the five worst-affected states in India by the outbreak.

The World Health Organization said on Friday it hopes the planet will be rid of the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years -- faster than it took for the Spanish flu.

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