India
The virus has spread rapidly and the country has marked significant and consecutive highest jumps in the COVID-19 tally over a major part of the past two weeks.
Updated : Jun 17, 2020, 12:02 AM IST | Edited by : Joydeep Bose
The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India has crossed the three lakh-mark as the country, for the first time ever, has become one of the four nations in the world with the highest COVID-19 caseload. Not just this, India is also the biggest epicenter of the pandemic outbreak in Asia.
The COVID-19 death toll in India is also nearing the 10,000-mark. The virus has spread rapidly and the country has marked significant and consecutive highest jumps in the COVID-19 tally over a major part of the past two weeks. However, it is to be noted that the central government still keeps denying that community transmission is taking place in India.
Maharashtra continues to be the epicenter of the coronavirus spread where the number of cases has witnessed an even large spike recently. According to the Health Ministry, Maharashtra has the highest number of cases with more than 1.10 lakh positive cases of infection and over 4,100 deaths. As many as 2,786 new COVID-19 cases were reported from the state in the past 24 hours.
The global number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus infection has surpassed 7.8 million, with over 431,000 fatalities being reported since the start of the outbreak, according to the latest data provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. The cumulative global toll of confirmed cases has increased by 132,581 over the past day to 7,823,289, according to the WHO. Over the past 24 hours, 3,911 people died from COVID-19 worldwide, taking the death toll to 431,541. The Americas, with over 3.7 million confirmed cases, remains the epicenter of the epidemic.
1859 fresh COVID-19 positive cases and 93 deaths have been reported in Delhi today. Total number of positive cases stand at 44,688 and death toll is at 1837: Directorate General of Health Services, Delhi
New cases in 24 hours: 1859
Total cases: 44,688
Deaths in 24 hours: 93
Death toll: 1837
Recovered: 16500 (520 discharged today)
Tamil Nadu reports 1,515 new COVID-19 positive cases and 49 deaths. Number of persons tested positive till date stands at 48,019 & death toll is at 528: State Health Department
Total COVID-19 cases cross 48,000
New cases: 1515
Total cases: 48,016
Active cases: 20,706
Highest deaths 49 today; total 528
7.48 lakh samples tested; 19,242 today
516 new cases of COVID19 recorded in Uttar Pradesh in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of active cases to 5259. A total of 8,904 people (61% recover rate) have recovered while 435 others lost their lives due to the disease: Principal Health Secretary Amit Mohan Prasad
During the last 24 hours, 10,215 COVID19 patients were cured. A total of 1,80,012 patients, so far, have been cured of COVID19. The recovery rate rises to 52.47%, which is indicative of the fact that more than half of positive cases have recovered from the disease: MoH&FW