NEW DELHI, Aug 28, 2020 (BSS) – India has registered the highest single day
spike of Covid-19 infection with 77,266 new cases today, pushing the total
number of active cases to 33,87,500 in the country.
The country’s death toll due to coronavirus infection climbed to 61,529
with 1,057 new fatalities recorded during the last 24 hours till this
morning, according to a data provided by the Union Health Ministry.
However, the recovery rate was further rose to 76.28 per cent while
coronavirus related fatality rate has declined to 1.82 per cent.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 and went
past 30 lakh on August 23, the data showed.
Nine states or UTs across the country have recorded the highest number of
Covid-19 cases as they accounted for 89 percent of the country’s total
fatality rates in the last two weeks.
The worst affected states are- Maharashtra, Tamul Nadu, Karnataka,
Telengana, Gujrat, west Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and
Jammu and Kashmir.
Against the backdrop of continued rise of new cases in the over populated
South Asian nation, India has further scaled up its testing capacity to
“effectively fight the coronavirus pandemic”.
The centre in collaboration with the state governments and UTs has been
consistently ramping up its testing infrastructure under the centre-led
policy of ‘Test-Track-Treat”, official sources said.
According to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total
of 3,94,77,848 samples have been tested up to August 27 as 9,01,338 samples
were tested on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Delhi state government following a spike in the number of new
Covid-19 cases has announced doubling the Covid-19 testing from its existing
20,000 per day aimed at effectively fighting the pandemic.