India Adds 90,000 Cases in a Day for First Time, COVID-19 Tally Level with Brazil—to Cross by Monday
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2021-06-03
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India Almost at Par With Brazil in Total Confirmed Cases, Adds Over 80,000 Cases For Fourth Day in a Row, and will be the country with the second highest total of COVID cases by the end of Sunday.
India now is at par with Brazil which has the second-highest caseload of coronavirus infections in the world after the United States. The country added almost 87,000 cases in a single day. On September 5, the total number of coronavirus infections in India crossed 40 lakh or 4 million. Over 1,000 new deaths were reported and the total death toll is nearing 70,000. At present, India has 8,46,395 active cases and as many as 31,07,223 people have recovered. Globally, the novel coronavirus has infected 26,521,304 people and claimed the lives of 873,131 people so far.
The daily increase in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh is the highest presently. In Maharashtra, in the last two weeks, the number of cases has almost doubled. An analysis in The Indian Express shows that a sudden increase in daily cases in Maharashtra can be attributed to the fact that testing has increased.
The analysis by Amitabh Sinha also points to the fact that the increase in The daily cases in Maharashtra is not just happening in the bigger cities of Mumbai and Pune but also in towns like Nagpur, Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Solapur and Satara.
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India now is at par with Brazil which has the second-highest caseload of coronavirus infections in the world after the United States. The country added almost 87,000 cases in a single day. On September 5, the total number of coronavirus infections in India crossed 40 lakh or 4 million. Over 1,000 new deaths were reported and the total death toll is nearing 70,000. At present, India has 8,46,395 active cases and as many as 31,07,223 people have recovered. Globally, the novel coronavirus has infected 26,521,304 people and claimed the lives of 873,131 people so far.
The daily increase in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh is the highest presently. In Maharashtra, in the last two weeks, the number of cases has almost doubled. An analysis in The Indian Express shows that a sudden increase in daily cases in Maharashtra can be attributed to the fact that testing has increased.
The analysis by Amitabh Sinha also points to the fact that the increase in The daily cases in Maharashtra is not just happening in the bigger cities of Mumbai and Pune but also in towns like Nagpur, Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Solapur and Satara.
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