After 5 days a spike less than 70K, Death toll reaches 65K

New Delhi:India has registered 65,081 recoveries and 69,921 fresh Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the past 24 hours. 

With the cumulative number of recovered patients growing to 28,39,882, the Recovery Rate among Covid-19 patients has gone up to 77 per cent. The number of recovered patients has overtaken the active cases by 3.61 times. 

Continuing the streak of posting more than 60,000 recoveries each day since the past five days, India has more than 20.53 lakh recovered people than the active cases that stand at 7,85,996 today, an offiicial release here said.

The number of recovered patients has grown four times from the first week of July to the last week of August 2020.

In the past 24 hours, five states have posted the highest addition to the new cases in the country. These are Maharashtra (11,852), Andhra Pradesh (10,004), Karnataka (6,495), Tamil Nadu (5,956) and Uttar Pradesh (4,782). Together they account for 56 per cent of the confirmed cases added in the past 24 hours. 

These five states have also reported the maximum number of patients that were cured and discharged in the last 24 hours, cumulatively accounting for 58.04 per cent of the national figure of 65,081 persons. While Maharashtra reported recoveries of 11,158 patients, the corresponding figures for Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka stand at 8,772 and 7,238. Tamil Nadu follows with 6,008, while Uttar Pradesh posted recovery of 4,597 Covid patients. 

With a cumulative figure of 536 deaths in the last 24 hours, the five states together account for 65.4 per cent of the deaths added to the national total (819). Maharashtra has reported 184 deaths, Karnataka has added 113, followed by Tamil Nadu (91), Andhra Pradesh (85) and Uttar Pradesh (63).(UNI)