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

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: August 10, 2020 13:44 IST

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India’s coronavirus recoveries crossed the 15 lakh-mark, the government said on Monday.
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Notably, recoveries are over twice the number of active cases (6,28,747) of coronavirus infection at present.
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However, infection still remains concentrated in 10 states that contribute more than 80% of the new cases, asserted the health ministry.
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The number of recovered cases has touched another high of 2.36 times the active cases.
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All patients are all under medical attention either in home isolation or in hospitals,” the ministry said.
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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.
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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.
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As many as 53,879 coronavirus patients were discharged in 24-hours, pushing the recovery rate to 68.78 per cent.
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Single-day spike of 62,064 cases and 1,007 deaths reported in India, in the last 24 hours on August 10.
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Active COVID cases rose to 6,34,945 and the country has seen 44,386 deaths so far.
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Infection still remains concentrated in 10 states that contribute more than 80% of the new cases.
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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.
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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.
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Brazil is next with over 30 lakh cases and 1.01 lakh deaths. India is third, followed by Russia, South Africa and Mexico.
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India, on Monday, witnessed yet another highest single-day spike of 62,064 cases and 1,007 deaths due to novel coronavirus.
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This is the fourth consecutive day when the country's COVID-19 cases-mark has increased by more than 60,000 cases.
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