COVID-19: India’s Coronavirus Cases Tally Is Now 5.5 Lakh

NEW DELHI: India’s coronavirus count has crossed the 5.49-lakh mark as the highest-ever single-day spike of over 19,000 COVID-19 cases were reported over the past 24 hours.  At the time of writing this report, the country’s total number of COVID-19 cases stands at 5,49,197 on Sunday, with 2,10,880 COVID-19 patients cured so far.

#CoronaUpdatesInIndia : (As on 29th June, 2020, 08:00 AM)

Recovery rate: has further improved to 58.67% 👍

Active cases: 2,10,120
Recoveries: 3,21,722
Deaths: 16,475
No. of people with #COVID19 so far: 5,48,318

Recoveries / deaths ratio: 95.12%: 4.88% 👍#IndiaFightsCorona pic.twitter.com/1QnRwefPpG

— MIB India 🇮🇳 #StayHome #StaySafe (@MIB_India) June 29, 2020

India is now just behind the United States, Brazil, and Russia in terms of the total confirmed cases. It is, therefore, the biggest epicentre of the coronavirus disease pandemic in Asia and the fourth worst-affected nation in the world.

Providing the silver lining to the dark cloud, however, the government today said that a total of 3,21,723 people affected with coronavirus have been cured in the country so far.

In the past 24 hours, 12,010 people have recovered from Covid-19 and with this, the recovery rate has reached 58.67 per cent.

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry said that a total of 19,459 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the country within 24 hours.

In a single day, 380 deaths have been reported taking the nationwide toll to 16,475.

Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 2,10,120.

Maharashtra is the most affected state, followed by Delhi and Tamil Nadu. Delhi has crossed Mumbai in terms of the number of coronavirus cases.

The global COVID-19 case total has surged past 9.8 million after a single-day record of 189,077 cases were registered worldwide over the past 24 hours, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Sunday (local time).

Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that 1,70,560 tests of coronavirus samples were conducted by the various laboratories in the country within 24 hours. So far, 83,98,362 tests have been conducted.

ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for Covid-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories.

As of now, a total of 1,047 laboratories across India have been given the approval to conduct the test for Covid-19. This includes 760 government laboratories and 287 private laboratory chains.

from League of India