India records 39,796 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours; Global caseload tops 183.7mn

India on Monday recorded 723 deaths and added 39,796 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the figure back to the range of 780 cases reported on April 8, according to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry.

India recorded 780 deaths on April 8 and 738 deaths on July 3. On Friday, the country crossed four lakh deaths due to Covid. With six lakh deaths, the US is at the top of the list followed by Brazil with 5.2 lakh Covid fatalities.

The first death due to Covid-19 in the country was reported last year in March. On May 23 this year, India witnessed the highest fatalities with 4,454 deaths in 24 hours.

Monday is the 17th consecutive day in the last two months when the death toll has been below the 2,000-mark. The total caseload rose to 3,05,85,229 after India crossed the three crore-mark on June 25. India is the second country after the US to record more than three crore cases, adding one crore cases in the last 50 days.

It is also the 27th consecutive day when India reported less than one lakh new coronavirus cases. On June 29, India recorded 37,566 cases, lowest since March 18 while on June 22 India reported 42,640 cases.

The active cases have now come down below 5 lakh. The country has 4,82,071 active cases presently and has witnessed a total of 4,02,728 deaths so far. According to the Union Health Ministry, a total of 42,352 people have been discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the total discharge to 2,97,00,430 till date.

Vaccination drive

The Health Ministry said that a total of 35,28,92,046 people have been vaccinated so far in the country, including 14,81,583 who were administered vaccines in the last 24 hours. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 41,97,77,457 samples have been tested up to July 4 for Covid-19. Of these 15,22,504 samples were tested on Sunday.

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 183.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.97 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.1 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

Global picture

In its latest update on Monday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload, death toll and the total number of vaccine doses administered stood at 183,729,671, 3,975,948 and 3,190,517,708, respectively.

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 33,716,933 and 605,526, respectively, according to the CSSE. In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 30,545,433 cases.

The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (18,769,808), France (5,848,171), Russia (5,544,209), Turkey (5,440,368), the UK (4,920,162), Argentina (4,535,473), Colombia (4,350,495), Italy (4,263,317), Spain (3,833,868), Germany (3,738,470) and Iran (3,254,818), the CSSE figures showed.

In terms of deaths, Brazil comes second with 524,417 fatalities. Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are India (402,005), Mexico (233,580), Peru (193,069), Russia (135,637), the UK (128,486), Italy (127,649), France (111,314) and Colombia (108,896).