(Pooja Dubey, Intern Journalist) Corona cases are steadily increasing in the country, with more than 80,000 Covid-19 cases a day for the last three days. On Friday, the total corona cases in India crossed 4 million.
In just 13 days, the number of Covid-19 patients has crossed 30 lakh to 40 lakh. After America and Brazil, India is the third country where corona cases have crossed 4 million.
31,07,223 patients have been cured till Saturday, with Covid-19 patients recovering to 77.23 percent. The total number of Covid-19 patients in the country has increased to 40,23,179 as per the data updated by the Union Health Ministry at 8 am on Saturday.
It took 21 days to reach the number of Covid-19 patients in India from 10 lakh to 20 lakh whereas it took 16 more days to get 20 to 3 million patients. However, it has taken just 13 days for the number of infected to reach 30 lakh to 40 lakh.
The death rate of patients from Covid-19 has declined further and now it has come down to 1.73 percent. At present, 8,46,395 patients of Kovid-19 are under treatment in the country, which is 21.04 percent of the total infected.
On August 7, the number of Covid-19 patients in India crossed 20 lakhs whereas on 23 August the number of infected persons crossed 3 million.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 4,77,38,491 samples have been tested in the country so far, of which 10,59,346 samples were tested on September 4 alone.
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