India records over 23,500 cases on Friday; 446 deaths

India records over 23,500 cases on Friday; 446 deaths

Recovery Rate Has However Crossed 60%

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: 04.06.2020

The Covid-19 pandemic continued to surge in the country as fresh cases rose to another record high on Friday, with over 23,500 reported during the day. With more than 22,000 new infections on Thursday, India’s coronavirus caseload has jumped by about 45,500 in just two days. The death toll from the virus has risen to 18,662 with 446 fatalities recorded on Friday.

Covid-19 cases in the country stood at 6,49,708, having crossed the 6 lakh mark just two days ago, as per data collated from state governments. Meanwhile, the recovery rate crossed 60%, with more than 3.93 lakh patients having been declared cured.

As many as 23,526 new cases were reported on Friday. The spike was again led by Maharashtra, which recorded a new high of 6,364 infections. At least seven other states reported their biggest single-day jump in cases, led by a massive increase of 1,892 in Telangana and 1,694 in Karnataka. The others were Uttar Pradesh (972 new cases), Gujarat (687), Bengal  (669), Odisha (561) and Kerala  (211).

Tamil Nadu became the second state in the country to cross the 1-lakh mark in total cases, reporting its second highest count of 4,329 on Friday. Delhi’s reported 2,520 cases, taking its caseload to over 94,600.

The southern states together accounted for nearly 9,000 fresh cases (8,987 to be precise), on the back of a major surge of the pandemic in the region since the past few days.

For the second day in a row, Maharashtra added over 6,000 cases to its Covid-19 tally. Friday’s 6,364 cases are the highest so far in a day, beating the previous high of 6,330 cases on Thursday. With this, the total number of cases in the state is now 1,92,990.

Maharashtra added 198 deaths on Friday, of which 150 were from the last 48 hours and 48 from previous days. The case fatality rate of the state as on Friday was 4.34%.

Continuing with its addition of a large number of cases, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (not counting Mumbai) reported 3,041, nearly 50% of the daily addition of cases in the state. Mumbai added 1,338 cases.

Tamil Nadu, 118 days after the first Covid-19 case was reported in the state, crossed the 100,000-mark on Friday, with an addition of 4,329 cases. The total count stands at 1,02,721 cases. Fatalities in the state rose to 1,385 as 64 more deaths were reported. Chennai, which is the worsthit city in the state, recorded 2,082 new cases, taking its tally to 64,689, while 33 deaths took the city’s toll closer to 1000-mark. On Friday, the official toll reached 996.

Karnataka on Friday reported its biggest single-day spike of 1,694 new cases, taking the total number of infections in the state to 19,710, the health department said. The state also recorded 21 fatalities pushing the death toll to 293. As many as 994 of the new cases were from Bengaluru.

BBMP personnel and ASHA workers sanitise the streets and stores near Kammanhalli in Bengaluru on Friday