On Wednesday, India reported the lowest number of deaths due to Covid since April 10. As per data released by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, 45,951 new cases and 817 deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours.
It is the third time since April 10 (839 fatalities) that the number of Covid deaths have gone below the 1,000-mark and 12th consecutive day to record less than 2,000 deaths due to Coronavirus.
India is only second to the US with more than three crore cases. However, in the last 50 days, India added another one crore to the number of cases, thereby taking the total number of Covid cases to 3,03,62,848.
Coming to the number of new coronavirus cases, it is the 23rd consecutive day when India reported less than one lakh cases. On June 29, 37,566 cases were reported - lowest since March 18 - and on June 22, there were 42,640 cases.
However, the number of active cases have decreased below six lakhs. Currently, there are 5,37,064 active cases and a record of 3,98,454 deaths so far.
As reported to the Union Health Ministry, 60,729 people have recovered in the last 24 hours and with this, a total of 2,94,27,330 people have been discharged so far.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 41,01,00,044 samples have been tested up to June 29 for Covid-19. Of these 19,60,757 samples were tested on Tuesday.
Global caseload
According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of Covid-19 cases across the globe has reached 181.7 million, while death cases are more than 3.93 million.
As per the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), the US continues to hold the world's highest number of cases (33,651,870) and deaths (604,457). India holds the second worst hit country record with 30,316,897 cases.
The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 33,651,870 and 604,457, respectively, according to the CSSE. In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 30,316,897 cases.
The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (18,513,305), France (5,835,885), Russia (5,428,961), Turkey (5,420,156), the UK (4,791,628), Argentina (4,447,701), Italy (4,259,133), Colombia (4,213,074), Spain (3,799,733), Germany (3,735,399) and Iran (3,192,809), the CSSE figures showed.
In terms of deaths, Brazil comes second with 515,985 fatalities. Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are India (397,637), Mexico (232,608), Peru (191,899), Russia (132,314), the UK (128,390), Italy (127,542), France (111,230) and Colombia (105,934).
