Coronavirus Cases: India registers biggest jump in single day
New Delhi : India registered its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases with 69,878 new patients registered in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said this morning. With the latest spike the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country have reached to 29,75,701.
Around 22.22 lakh people have recovered from coronavirus in India so far.
Across India, 55,794 Covid-linked deaths have been registered so far; 945 patients have died since yesterday, according to the official data.
The recovery rate of coronavirus patients in India stands at 74.69 per cent.
Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh are the five worst-affected states in India by the outbreak.
On Friday, WHO said that planet Earth will get rid of coronavirus in less than two years, faster than it took for the Spanish flu.
"We hope to finish this pandemic before less than two years," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from the WHO's headquarters in Geneva, insisting that it should be possible to tame the novel coronavirus faster than the deadly 1918 pandemic, news agency AFP reported.
