MUMBAI (Reuters) – India reported tuesday on the number of new coronavirus cases worldwide for the 18th consecutive day, well ahead of the United States and Brazil, showed a Reuters count based on official reports.
India took from the end of January, when the country’s first case was reported, to approximately 1. 6 million cases, at which point the government imposed a strict blockade.
However, infections have increased to 1. 5 million more since early August, bringing the total to about 3. 1 million, brazil and the United States alone.
The rate of new instances in India is expanding rapidly, going to 60,975 in the last 24 hours, until the Federal Ministry of Health.
“If we cross the absolute numbers (in Brazil and the United States), I might not be surprised, but we also have a larger population,” Reuters Giridhar Babu, epidemiologist at the India Foundation for Nonprofit Public Health, told Reuters Giridhar Babu.
But deaths remained low, at 58390, or 1. 84% of general cases, below the overall mortality rate of 3. 4%.
India reported its first COVID-19-related death in mid-March, with a death toll of around 35,700 at the end of July. So far in August, there have been approximately 22,600 deaths. was incubating two weeks of the disease.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government said it calmed down through the maximum healing rate: about 75% of the 3. 1 million cases in general are no longer infected, according to the knowledge of the Federal Ministry of Health.
In the midst of the race to expand a vaccine, the ministry said India in a verbal exchange with Russia regarding Sputnik-V, its experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
(Report via Shilpa Jamkhandikar; editing via Rupam Jain and Mark Potter)
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