India is on its way to the country with the largest number of Instances of Covid-19 after the United States, replacing Brazil.
This is expected to happen in a few days, and the number of instances will expand again after stagnating at about 60,000 for about a week.
In the last 24 hours, India has reported 78,500 new Covid-19s.
But with another 60,868 people recovering and 971 succumbing to infection during the same period, the total number of active cases in the country increased from 16,673 to 7,81,975.
However, with a total of 36. 21 lakh shown cases of Covid, India is temporarily catching up with Brazil, which has a total of 38. 62 lakh of cases shown.
The spread of infection has slowed in Brazil; According to the World Health Organization, the South American country reported about 41,350 new instances on Sunday, compared to 78,512 in India.
The United States, with nearly 60 instances of lakh today, is ahead of the number of instances shown.
A saving grace for India is also its decline in the mortality rate: only 64,469 lives have been lost in India to date, while Brazil has reported 1,20,462 deaths to date, according to WHO.
In addition, in India, 27,74,801 have recovered from infection since the pandemic was first reported in the country on 30 January.
Among the states, Andhra Pradesh (4,24,767) crowned Tamil Nadu (4,22,085) to number 2 in the total number of cases shown. Maharashtra, with 7,80,689 cases, ranks first.
According to a published Monday through the Ministry of Health, Maharashtra (1 93 889), Andhra Pradesh (99 129) and Karnataka (88 110) accounted for 43% of all active instances of Covid-19 in the country.
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