July 5, 2020
New Delhi: India on Sunday overtook Russia to become the third worst-hit country, with the number of Corona cases standing at 6,90,396, according to to covid19india.org.
Russia has so far recorded 6,80,283 cases, as per the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) tracker. Now Brazil and the US are ahead of India, having recorded 2,841,124 and 1,577,004 cases respectively.
Earlier, India recorded a single-day spike of record 24,850 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking its total tally to 6,73,165 even as over 600 deaths in the last 24 hours increased the country’s death toll to 19,268, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data revealed.
The country now has 6,83,240 coronavirus cases, 1989 postive cases more than Russia, according to official health ministry figures.
The highest number of 27.8 lakh corona cases have been registered in the US so far, while Brazil is the second worst-hit nation with over 15 lakh cases.
Indian at present has 2,47,788 active cases, and . The death toll is 19,441. As many as 4,16,011 have recovered till date., IANS adds
The number of patients who have been cured and discharged from hospitals is 4,09,083 .
With a spike of more than 7,000 cases in just one day, Maharashtra remained the worst- hit state with its total cases crossing the 2-lakh mark (2,00,064) and 8,671 casualties, of which 295 occurred in the last 24 hours.
Southern state of Tamil Nadu comes second with 1,07,001 corona cases including 1,450 deaths. Tamil Nadu witnessed a spike of 4,280 cases and 65 deaths in just one day.
Delhi , which is the third worst-hit city, witnessed a spike of 2,505 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total corona tally to 97,200. Delhi now has 25,940 active cases, with 3,004 deaths. As many as 68,256 patients have recovered and since discharged from hospitals.
States with more than 10,000 cases include Gujarat (35,312) with 1,925 deaths, Uttar Pradesh (26,554), Rajasthan (19,532), Madhya Pradesh (14,064), West Bengal (21,231), Haryana (16,548), Karnataka (21,549), Andhra Pradesh (17,699), Telangana (22,312) and Bihar (11,700) cases.
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