The country has witnessed a surge of 2,19,926 infections from June 1 till 21 with Maharashtra, TN, Delhi, Gujarat and UP among the top five states that have seen a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases.
The spike coincides with International Yoga Day, on the occasion of which Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to practise ‘pranayama’ (breathing techniques) to build immunity to fight coronavirus.
India took 64 days to cross the 1 lakh-mark from 100 cases, another fortnight to reach the grim milestone of two lakh cases and then in another 10 days it went past the 3-lakh mark.
The country has been recording single-day spikes for the past four days. The jump of 15,413 cases took India’s case load to 4,10,461. The number of recoveries also continued to surge with 2,27,755 patients cured so far, while there were 1,69,451 active cases, according to the updated official figures at 8 am. One patient has migrated.
India is the fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic after the US, Brazil and Russia. Thus, around 55.48 per cent of the patients have recovered so far,” an official said. The total number of confirmed cases includes foreigners.
As per the report, more than 70 per cent deaths took place due to comorbidities, the ministry said. Maharashtra has reported the maximum number of cases at 1,28,205, followed by Tamil Nadu at 56,845, Delhi at 56,746, Gujarat at 26,680, Uttar Pradesh at 16,594, Rajasthan at 14,536 and West Bengal at 13,531.
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