Coronavirus Cases in India: Recent Covid-19 Infections Top 83,000 Record; 1,023 deaths | India News https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

NEW DELHI: India posted its largest single-day increase in Covid-19 infections by adding 83,029 new cases on Wednesday, crossing the 83,000 mark for the first time since the pandemic outbreak. This is the third time that India has crossed the 80,000 mark and, worryingly, all three peaks occurred in just the past four days, pointing to the rapid spread of the disease.
No other country in the world has ever approached the 83,000 mark in one day. Previously, the US had set a record for daily infections by reporting 77,255 cases on July 16 according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, a dismal milestone India crossed on August 29 with 78,903 new cases.
Wednesday’s spike came as Maharashtra reported a record 17,433 new cases, breaking the 17,000 mark for the first time and becoming the only state in the country to do so. The state’s previous high was 16,867 cases on Aug. 29. Maharashtra also crossed another record by crossing the 25,000 death mark with 292 recent deaths, bringing the total to 25,195.
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With 1,023 recent deaths, the cumulative figure for India reached 67,415. Maharashtra alone accounts for 37% of the number. Tamil Nadu, which reported 98 new deaths on Wednesday, bringing the state’s death toll to 7,516, has the second-highest Covid number in the country after Maharashtra. Karnataka, another badly affected state in the south, reported 113 deaths, bringing the state’s total figure close to the 6,000 mark at 5,950.
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In the north, while Delhi continued to report an increase in new cases in what could be a second wave of the infection, deaths are growing at an alarming rate in Punjab, which reported 106 deaths on Wednesday, its highest level in a year. day and in triple digits for the first time. Punjab’s death toll is now 1,618 and its death rate of 2.8% is much higher than the national rate of 1.7%. Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu called on people to urgently go for Covid-19 testing in case of symptoms, as the delay in testing / treatment is the main cause of the high rate. mortality.
Andhra Pradesh (72 deaths), UP (75), Bengal (56), Delhi (19), Madhya Pradesh (27) and Haryana and J&K (15 each) are other states that reported multiple deaths on Wednesday. Goa hit a record for the number of daily casualties by reporting 10 deaths.
In addition to Maharashtra, at least five states reported their biggest single-day increase on Wednesday: Karnataka (9,860 cases), Uttarakhand (836), Tripura (566), Rajasthan (1,511) and Goa (636).
The country’s cumulative case burden based on figures collected from state governments is now 38,45,059. Up to 29,60,451 of them have recovered, while active cases amount to 8,17,193.

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