Coronavirus cases in India jump from 2 lakh to 3 lakh in 10 days

New Delhi : It took only ten days for India to register more than 1 lakh cases of coronavirus as the country registered highest daily spikes in last couple of days. On Saturday, India registered around 11,458 infection cases, while the death tolltoo climbed to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, the health ministry said.

First one lakh cases in India were registered in 64 days.

India has now become the fourth worst-hit nation pandemic with a caseload of 3,08,993, according to coronavirus statistics website Worldometer.

However, the Health Ministry has claimed that the doubling rate of coronavirus cases in India has improved to 17.4 days from 15.4 days. And its data updated at 8 am on Saturday showed active cases at 1,45,779 and those who have recovered at 1,54,329; one patient has migrated.

Thus 49.9 percent cases have recovered so far.

Of the 386 new deaths, Delhi accounted for the highest 129 fatalities followed by Maharashtra 127. The virus is moving rapidly in Delhi, which for the first time reported over 2,000 cases on Friday, and Maharashtra, where the number of cases has crossed one lakh.