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India reports over 40000 Covid-19 cases in a day

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Published: 06:15, 20 July 2020   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
India reports over 40000 Covid-19 cases in a day

Daily cases of the coronavirus or Covid-19 surpassed the 40,000 mark for the first time since the outbreak on Monday (July 20) morning, taking the national tally of infections past 1.1 million.

India reported 40,425 new cases and 681 deaths in last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 1,118,043, and deaths to 27,497.

While the spread of the virus, Sars-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, is beginning to show signs of plateauing in some urban epicentres of the contagion such as Delhi, other regions such as Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Bihar have started showing spikes in daily new cases.

Nearly half the new cases on Sunday came from three states, Maharashtra (9,518), Tamil Nadu (4,979) and Andhra Pradesh (5,041) – all record single-day highs. Several states and UTs such as Uttar Pradesh (2,211 new cases), West Bengal (2,278), Bihar (1,412), Rajasthan (934) and Jammu and Kashmir (701) reported record single-day case spikes on Sunday.

Delhi reported 1,211 new cases, Karnataka 4,120 and Telangana 1,296, according to respective state bulletins.

In the past week, until July 19, India recorded more than 34,000 new cases a day on average, compared to 26,000 a week before — a statistic that highlights the rate of cases growing in the country. The doubling rate of cases — the number of days it takes for infections to double — is currently 20.2 days.

Experts have said that the focus of the battle against the virus now needs to shift to rural parts of the country that traditionally have been beyond the reach of adequate health care mechanisms, and where new hot spots are now feared to surface.

The number of recovered Covid-19 patients in India has crossed 700,000, with the recovery rate standing at 62.7%._Agencies

 

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