(Ritambhara, intern journalist) India: The infection prevalence of coronavirus in India is now gradually decreasing. The number of people affected by the Covid epidemic in the country is close to 6.6 million. According to the data released by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday, 61 thousand 267 new cases have been reported during the last 24 hours and 884 people have died. Today, the lowest increase in cases of the corona virus has been recorded since August.
With this, the total number of corona cases in the country has risen to 66 lakh 85 thousand 83. Of these, 1 lakh 3 thousand 569 people have died, while 56 lakh 62 thousand 491 patients have been cured. There are 9 lakh 19 thousand 23 active cases. Let us know that India ranks second among the countries most affected by Corona in the world. The first place in America.
Most affected state Maharashtra
Maharashtra still remains the most affected state by coronaviruses. So far, 14,53,653 cases have been reported here and 38,347 people have died. It is followed by Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi.
The recovery rate in the country is now 84.34 percent. Let us know that Chile has the highest recovery rate above 92 percent, while the lowest in the US is 33 percent. The death rate from Covid-19 in India is 1.55 percent. According to data from the Ministry of Health, India has the lowest death rate among the top 20 corona infected countries. While Mexico has the highest death rate of 10.4 percent.
On the other hand, according to the data of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 8 crores 10 lakh 71 thousand 797 sample tests have been done for the coronavirus in the country till October 5, out of which 10 lakh 89 thousand 400 samples were tested on Monday.