Covid-19 Factoid: Gap between daily new cases and recoveries widening

The world is adding over 70,000 cases everyday while the daily recoveries are still sub-15,000 on an average in the last three days.

The world is nearing the 1 million mark of Covid-19 cases and touching 50,000 mark in the number of deaths due to the deadly virus. The rapid increase is led by the US, which has already crossed 2 lakh Covid-19 cases. Back home, India is struggling with the spike in new case additions linked with the religious gathering at Delhi's Markaz Nizamuddin.

Here are few data trends that you need to know to be up to speed.

#1. Widening gap between new cases additions and recoveries

The gap between the new case additions and the number of daily recoveries is