(Riya Saha,Intern Journalist)The total confirmed COVID-19 positive cases in India crossed the one million mark, nearly 170 days after the first case was registered on January 30 in Kerala.
India now has the third highest number of confirmed cases, behind the U.S.’s close to 3.5 million and Brazil’s 1.97 million cases.
India added 34,956 new cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total count to 1,003,832, according to the Health Ministry’s update at 9 a.m. on July 17. This includes 635,757 recoveries and 25,602 people who have lost their lives because of the novel virus. Over the last 24 hours, 22,942 patients recovered and 687 died.
The second-most populous nation with 1.3 billion people is only behind the U.S. and Brazil in the number of confirmed infections, with no sign of the virus curve flattening. India, on an average, added more than 28,000 cases in the past week, a twofold jump in a fortnight.
India took 150 days to add 5 lakh and only 20 to double it to 10 lakh. The pace of transmission is rising even as it has started to decelerate in some developed nations. India’s daily additions have surged manifold compared with the U.K., France, Russia, Spain and Italy—countries that witnessed a massive a massive outbreak recently.
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