With Coronavirus count above 1.60 lakhs, India is 9th worst hit country; death toll surpasses China’s tally

New Delhi: Recording the biggest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases, India on Friday recorded 7,466 fresh cases of novel Coronavirus in last 24 hours, taking the total tally to 1,65,799 cases.

As many as 175 deaths have been recorded in the same period taking the toll to 4,706, surpassing China’s reported toll of 4,638.

India has now overtaken Turkey as the ninth worst-hit country in terms of total number of cases after United States of America, Brazil, Russia, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France and Germany.

The first case of the novel coronavirus was discovered in China last December and since then it has spread to virtually all parts of the world infecting more than 57 lakh people globally.

Over 3.5 people dead due to Coronavirus

More than 3.5 lakh have died too across the world, but very few new cases are being reported in China for the last few days.

The United States tops the death toll with more than 1 lakh fatalities, followed by UK, Italy, France, Spain, Brazil, Belgium, Mexico, Germany and Iran in the Top Ten. India is ranked 13th now after Canada and Netherlands at the 11th and 12th places, respectively.

Maharashtra alone has 60,000 Covid-19 cases

India has witnessed a huge surge in the number of coronavirus cases after restrictions were eased during the lockdown 4.0 that began on May 18. In India, Maharashtra continues to be the worst affected state with 59,546 number of virus infections.

Other states which have been attributing to the surge in cases to the influx of people from outside include West Bengal, Kerala, Assam, Bihar, Odisha, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.