India recorded 38,902 new cases of the coronavirus, the highest in 24 hours, which has pushed the country’s tally to 1,078,757, Union health ministry data showed on Sunday, reports Hindustan times.
The death toll has gone up to 26,816 with 543 fatalities reported in the last 24 hours.
The number of recovered people continued to grow and with 23,672 discharged between Saturday and Sunday morning, 677,422 patients have been cured so far across the country. This has put the recovery rate at 62.82%.
The government has said India’s focus is on early case detection and saving lives.
It pointed out that the 11 most Covid-19 affected countries in the world—the US, Brazil, Russia, Peru, Chile, Mexico, South Africa, the UK, Iran, Pakistan, Spain—together reported eight times more cases and 14 times more deaths than India.
India is only the third country after the United States and Brazil with more than a million cases.
The number of Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra climbed to 300,937, more than 130 days after the first infection was reported in the state. There have been 11,596 fatalities in the state.
The latest 100,000 cases in Maharashtra came in 14 days. The state’s first 100,000 infections were reported in 96 days, while the next 100,000 cases took 22 days.
Tamil Nadu reported 165,714 Covid-19 infections and 2,403 deaths, while Delhi has 121,582 cases and 3,597 fatalities.
The viral disease has now infected 14,246,121 people and killed 601,549 people in almost seven months across the world.
