India’s coronavirus tally crosses 75-lakh mark with spike of 55,722 cases in 24 hrs
India Fights Coronavirus: India crosses 75-lakhs marks with 55,722 new COVID19 cases and 579 deaths in the last 24 hours
New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Monday (October 19) said that India’s COVID-19 count crossed 75-lakh mark and reached 75,50,273 with a spike of 55,722 new COVID-19 cases and 579 deaths in the last 24 hours
According to MoHFW, the COVID-19 count includes 7,72,055 active cases (dip by 11,256 since yesterday) and 66,63,608 cured/discharged/migrated cases (rise by 66,399 since yesterday). With 579 deaths in the last 24 hours, the total death count due to the disease has reached 1,14,610.
“India’s Active Cases have fallen below 8L after 6 weeks and continue to slide further down. 22 States/UTs have less than 20,000 Active Cases, and only 3 are reporting more than 50,000 active caseload,” MoHFW said in a tweet.
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India’s Active Cases have fallen below 8L after 6 weeks and continue to slide further down.
22 States/UTs have less than 20,000 Active Cases, and only 3 are reporting more than 50,000 active caseload. pic.twitter.com/Z56clgetCI
— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) October 19, 2020
With 1,83,456 total active cases, Maharashtra continues to be the worst affected state by COVID-19 in the country. While 13,69,810 patients have recovered from the disease in the state, 42,115 have died so far.
Among other severely affected states, Karnataka has 1,09,283 active cases, while 6,45,825 people have recovered, 10,478 have succumbed to the coronavirus.
Delhi has 22,884 total active cases, 2,98,853 recovered and 5,981 deaths reported so far.
Meanwhile, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 9,50,83,976 samples have been tested in the country for COVID-19 till Saturday. This includes 8,59,786 samples tested on October 18.
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