Covid-19 Factoid: India has added over 50,000 cases on all days this month

The number of cases added in a day by Maharashtra, the most affected state in India, has been more than 12,000 and less than 10,000 on six occasions each in August

The global count of confirmed coronavirus cases has reached 22.6 million — 6.4 million of these cases are currently active. There have been more than 792,000 Covid-19 deaths worldwide, with two countries – the US and Brazil – accounting for more than 100,000 deaths each. Over 15 million people, meanwhile, have successfully recovered from the disease.

India now has over 2.8 million reported cases, of which 24.2 per cent or 686,395 cases are currently active. The country’s recovery rate has risen to 74 per cent, with more than 2 million people getting cured so far. The mortality rate is under 2