India’s COVID-19 Recoveries Cross 15-Lakh Mark

India’s coronavirus recoveries crossed the 15 lakh-mark, the government said on Monday.

Notably, recoveries are over twice the number of active cases (6,28,747) of coronavirus infection at present.

However, infection still remains concentrated in 10 states that contribute more than 80% of the new cases, asserted the health ministry.

The number of recovered cases has touched another high of 2.36 times the active cases.

All patients are all under medical attention either in home isolation or in hospitals,” the ministry said.

The ministry also stated that the number of single-day tests has been growing exponentially and India has been testing over six lakh samples daily for several days.

A record 7,19,364 samples have been tested on Saturday, the highest in a day so far. India is conducting around 500 tests for detection of COVID-19 per minute and the per-day testing capacity has increased over five lakhs,” Scientist and media coordinator at ICMR, Dr Lokesh Sharma said.

As many as 53,879 coronavirus patients were discharged in 24-hours, pushing the recovery rate to 68.78 per cent.

Single-day spike of 62,064 cases and 1,007 deaths reported in India, in the last 24 hours on August 10.

Active COVID cases rose to 6,34,945 and the country has seen 44,386 deaths so far.

Infection still remains concentrated in 10 states that contribute more than 80% of the new cases.

The total number of COVID-19 samples tested up to 9th August stands at 2,45,83,558 including 4,77,023 samples tested alone on August 09.

Meanwhile, according to Johns Hopkins University, the global coronavirus count has almost touched 2 crores while the death toll has crossed 7.29 lakh. while the US, with over 50 lakh cases is worst-affected with COVID-19, the death toll in that country stands at 1.62 lakh.

Brazil is next with over 30 lakh cases and 1.01 lakh deaths. India is third, followed by Russia, South Africa and Mexico.

India, on Monday, witnessed yet another highest single-day spike of 62,064 cases and 1,007 deaths due to novel coronavirus.

This is the fourth consecutive day when the country's COVID-19 cases-mark has increased by more than 60,000 cases.