Coronavirus: India’s COVID-19 caseload crosses 42-lakhmark with record single-day spike of 90,802 cases
With the upsurge of COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, India overtook Brazil to become the second worst-hit country in the world.
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FollowIndia's COVID-19 tally of cases went past 42 lakh with a record 90,802 people being infected in a day, while 32,50,429 people have recuperated so far, pushing the national recovery rate to 77.3% on Monday (September 7), according to the Union health ministry data.
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The total number of coronavirus cases mounted to 42,04,613, while the death toll climbed to 71,642 with 1,016 fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.70%.
There are 8,82,542 active cases of the infection in the country which comprises 20.99% of the total caseload, the data stated.
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh are the worst-hit states. These five states also reported the highest number of new cases in the last 24 hours.
India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and it went past 40 lakh on September 5.
According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 4,95,51,507 samples have been tested up to September 6 with 7,20,362 samples being tested on Sunday.
With the upsurge of COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, India overtook Brazil to become the second worst-hit country in the world.
The United States, with more than 6 million cases, remains the worst-affected country.
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