- Saturday, May 04, 2024
By: Pramod Thomas
INDIA reported a record daily jump of 77,266 coronavirus infections on Friday (28), taking its total to 3.39 million, as cases surged across the country, data from the health ministry showed.
India has reported the highest single-day caseload in the world every day since Aug. 7. Currently, it is the third-most affected country behind only the US and Brazil.
Deaths in the same period went up by 1,057, taking the total toll to 61,529.
The total tally in the country stands at 3,387,501 including 742,023 active cases and 2,583,948 cured, the ministry said.
India reported its first case of Covid-19 infection on January 30 in the southern state of Kerala.
The recovery rate in India was recorded at 76.28 per cent, while the Covid-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.82 per cent.
India’s Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 and went past 30 lakh on August 23.
According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 39,477,848 samples have been tested up to August 27 with 901,338 samples being tested on Thursday (27).
Meanwhile, India’s supreme court on Friday (28) held in its judgment that final year examination for college/university students have to be held as per the university grants commission’s (UGC) guidelines by 30 September.
