- With a daily increase of 72,049 in total cases, India’s tally of coronavirus cases has risen from 6,685,082 on Tuesday to 6,757,131 – an increase of 1.1%. Death toll has reached 104,555, with 986 fatalities in a day. The second-most-affected country by total cases and active cases, and third by death toll, India has added 531,368 cases in the past 7 days alone.
- India now accounts for 11.58% of all active cases globally (one in every 8 active cases), and 9.91% of all deaths (one in every 10).
- Backwards from here, the last 1 million cases for India have come in 13 days.
- The count of active cases across India has seen a net reduction of 11140, compared with 15404 on Tuesday. The states that have reported the biggest 24-hour jump in active cases are Kerala (2865), West Bengal (271), Meghalaya (154), Rajasthan (79), and Arunachal Pradesh (33).
- With 82203 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate has improved to 85.02; the fatality rate remains unchanged at 1.55%.
- India’s new daily closed cases stand at 83,189 — 986 deaths and 82203 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 1.19%.
- India’s 5-day moving average of daily rate of addition to total cases stands at 1.1%.
- India’s doubling time for total cases stands at 64.7 days, and for deaths at 73.2 days.
- The only state that has seen its highest single-day jump in daily new cases today is West Bengal (3370).
- Overall, five states with the biggest 24-hour jump in total cases are Maharashtra (12258), Karnataka (9993), Kerala (7871), Andhra Pradesh (5795), and Tamil Nadu (5017).
- Among states with more than 25,000 cases, the five with worst recovery rates at present are Kerala (63.46%), Chhattisgarh (78.01%), Maharashtra (80.48%), Karnataka (81.05%), and J&K (81.39%).
- India on Tuesday conducted 1,199,857 coronavirus tests, and had a test positivity rate of 6%.
- Five states with the highest test positivity rate (TPR) – percentage of tested people turning out to be positive for Covid-19 infection (by cumulative data for tests and cases) – are Maharashtra (20.24%), Chandigarh (15.39%), Puducherry (13.8%), Goa (13.72%), and Karnataka (12.13%).
- Five states with the highest TPR by daily numbers for tests and cases added – are Goa (27.34%), Maharashtra (17.15%), Chandigarh (14.1%), Chhattisgarh (13.38%), and Sikkim (12.89%).
- Among states and UTs with more than 10 million population, five that have carried out the highest number of tests (per million population) are Delhi (170131), J&K (131887), Andhra Pradesh (119037), Assam (108061), and Tamil Nadu (103889).
- The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (1465911), Andhra Pradesh (729307), Karnataka (657705), Tamil Nadu (630408), and Uttar Pradesh (420937).
- Maharashtra, the most affected state overall, has reported a net addition of 12,258 cases. The state has added 144735 cases in the past 10 days.
- Andhra Pradesh, the second-most-affected state by total cases, has added 41,956 cases in the past seven days alone. On Tuesday it added 5795 cases.
- Tamil Nadu, which has seen its tally going up by 5,017, has added more than 5,000 cases on each of the past 77 days.
- Karnataka has reported 9993 cases, to take its tally to 657705.
- Delhi has added 2676 cases to take its tally to 295236.
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