COVID-19: With 11,000 New Cases, India Surpasses UK To Be 4th Worst-Affected Nation

NEW DELHI: India registered it’s highest single-day spike, recording 11,000 COVID-19 cases on the day, taking the total to 2,97,928. With 392 deaths were recorded on the day, the overall death toll is now 8,497. Active cases stand at 1,42,715, with 1,46,716 patients having recovered.

With the new, record surge India surpassed the UK to become the country with the fourth-highest incidence of COVID-19.

The 11,442 cases recorded on June 11 is less than the daily counts of the day of only Russia, the US and Brazil.

Worryingly, the current month is seeing a dangerous spike in the fatalities.

India recorded 205 deaths on June 1, then 221, 252, 270, 300, 298, 261, 342, 271, on subsequent days and finally 359 on June 10 — totalling 2,779 deaths out of a total of 8,107 (33% in 10 days) in India since the outbreak of the virus.

On the brighter side, the recovery rate reached 49.21 per cent in the country and the total number of recovered people from coronavirus reached 1,41,029.

The case fatality rate too is now at an encouraging 2.82 per cent.

During the last 24 hours, 5,823 people have been cured of this virus.

Further, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has achieved the remarkable feat yesterday by crossing the 1,50,000 tests per day mark.

A total of 1,51,808 tests of coronavirus were conducted by the various laboratories in the country.

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 837 laboratories across India have been given the approval to conduct the test for COVID-19 including 602 government laboratories and 235 private laboratories’ chains.

The national capital is fast heading towards becoming the “corona capital” of the country, observed the Delhi High Court while expressing concern over the spike in COVID-19 cases and directed that all private hospitals equipped with labs to test for coronavirus and having ICMR sanction be permitted to conduct the test.

A Bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad observed that “corona capital” was “an epithet the city can well do without” and said it was need of the hour that all private hospitals equipped with labs to test for COVID-19 be permitted to do so without losing any more time.

According to the latest official figures, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Delhi is over 32,000 including 984 deaths. The number of active coronavirus patients in the city is over 19,000.

Maharashtra recorded a new single-day high in cases as well as fatalities on Thursday, reporting 3,607 new COVID-19 cases and 152 deaths as its total case tally soared to 97,648 while its total death toll rose to 3,590. However, only 47,968 cases of Maharashtra’s total case tally are active ones. As many as 1,561 patients were discharged today, taking the total number of discharged till date to 46,078.

With 1,418 new cases reported today, Mumbai’s total case tally has now reached 54,085 while its death toll has risen to 1,954. As many as 97 of the new deaths were reported from Mumbai city, nine from the Mira Bhayandar civic body area, seven from Kalyan Dombivali, and eight from Pune among other parts of the State.

With the number of cases increasing, Punjab has decided to bring back on weekends and holidays the restrictions that were imposed during the lockdown, treading on the same path as Uttarakhand. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has also ordered mandatory testing certification for people entering the state from Delhi.

Madhya Pradesh on Thursday recorded 192 new COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 10,241. The number of active cases stands at 2,768. Two patients died in Indore owing to the illness, while Burhanpur and Chhindwara reported one death each on the day. The State-wide death toll climbed to 431. As for recoveries, 150 patients were discharged from hospitals on the day. So far, 7,042 persons have been cured of the illness, says the State Directorate of Health Services.

from League of India