Covid cases in India is now 7,93,802. On Thursday covid cases rose bi over 26,000 setting daily record.
Now India have over 7,00,94,000 cases with death around 21,604. With total 2,76,685 active cases.
India recovery rate is is 62.4 % yesterday and total of 4,56,831 have recovered and the recovery rate is 61.53 per cent.
A strict seven-day lockdown was imosed in all containment zones across West Bengal from Thursday evening as the state witnessed the highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases. The state Thursday registered the highest single-day increase of 1,088 COVID-19 cases. It also reported 27 deaths, raising the toll to 854, officials said.
Five COVID-19 patients died in Assam on Thursday, bringing the death toll due to the disease to 27, while 568 fresh cases pushed the tally to 14,600 in the state, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that Latin America and the Caribbean have become ‘a hot spot’ for the COVID-19 pandemic, with several countries now having one of the highest per capita infection rates and absolute number of cases in the world.