New Delhi, June 27
India's Covid-19 caseload today crossed the half a million mark, doubling from 2.5 lakh cases to 5 lakh in 19 days with rapid surges over the past week that saw the country add one lakh cases in just six days.
The cumulative disease load rose to 5,08,953 today with record daily new infections of 18,552. Recovery percentage sprung to 58.13 as 2,95,880 patients were discharged, leaving 1,97,387 on active disease management.
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The gap between the recovered and infected persons is now over one lakh cases. The death toll from the disease has reached 15,685 with 384 fatalities recorded in the past 24 hours.
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, who chaired the 17th meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Covid, today said eight states — Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Telangana, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal — were now contributing 85.5 per cent of the cases and 87 per cent of deaths. The GoM took note of the concentration of disease, asking states to ramp up testing and reach full national testing capacity of three lakh samples a day.
ICMR chief Balram Bhargava said 2,20,479 samples were tested in the past 24 hours with total number of samples tested so far standing at 79,96,707.
Tests per day across India are still low and recent trends of improved testing have shown larger number of infections.
Bhargava said testing was being ramped up across India with the idea being to detect and isolate those infected. — TNS
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