India's health ministry announced on Sunday at least 78,761 new infections in 24 hours, setting a new daily record worldwide, as deaths exceed at 63,498
More than 24.9 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and 16.4 million have recovered, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 842,400 people have died.
Brazil's Ministry of Health has reported at least 758 additional coronavirus fatalities during the last 24 hours, with 41,350 new cases, bringing the death toll to 120,262, and the confirmed cases to 3,846,153.
Every Italian region reported new coronavirus cases after a record 99,000 tests turned up another 1,444 cases. Coronavirus infections and fatalities continued to rise in Latin American countries Friday.
Cases in Argentine rose to 380,292 with 10,104 additional infections reported in the past 24 hours, according to health authorities.
At least 185 more patients lost their lives, bringing fatalities to 8,129.
In Chile, COVID-19 cases increased by 1,870 to 405,972, while 60 more fatalities raised the death toll to 11,132.
As many as 1,035 new virus cases brought Bolivia's tally to 113,129. At least 65 fatalities took the death toll to 4,791, according to the health authorities.
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed nearly 836,000 lives in 188 countries and regions since it originated in China last December. The US, Brazil, India, and Russia are currently the worst-hit countries.
India on Sunday reported the biggest single-day jump in coronavirus infections of any nation in the COVID-19 pandemic, as the epicentre shifts to the south Asian giant.
India’s 78,761 cases exceeded the 77,299 recorded in the United States on July 16, a Reuters tally of official data showed.
The world’s second-most populous nation is, with 3.54 million cases, the third-hardest hit by the pandemic, following the United States and Brazil, but its daily tallies have exceeded those of the other two countries for almost two weeks.
The Covid-19 death toll in India jumped by 948 to 63,498, the federal health ministry data showed.Maharashtra, India’s wealthiest and most urbanised state, recorded 331 fatalities, the steepest single-day increase among all states, followed by the southern state of Karnataka with 136 deaths.
Despite the surging case numbers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been pushing for a return to normalcy to lessen the economic pain of the pandemic, having earlier imposed strict lockdowns of the country’s 1.3 billion people.
The federal home ministry has decided to let underground train networks reopen with some restrictions in New Delhi, India’s capital of about 20 million people.
The subway will start running on September 7 for the first time since March, when India imposed the world’s strictest lockdown to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
Cinemas, swimming pools, entertainment parks and other such places will remain shut.
The lockdown has led to large-scale job losses and an economic slump.
India’s deepest recession on record will persist all year, as a resurgence has squelched a nascent rebound in consumption and business activity, a Reuters poll showed.Pakistan has on Saturday reported only one death by novel coronavirus during the last 24 hours as the pandemic is losing intensity in the country. The number of positive cases has surged to 295,372. The nationwide tally of fatalities has jumped to 6,284.
According to the latest figures by the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) 319 persons have been tested positive for COVID-19 in 24 hours.
Till now 129,179 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Sindh, 96,699 in Punjab, 35,971 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 12,804 in Balochistan, 15,597 in Islamabad, 2,832 in Gilgit-Baltistan and 2,290 in Azad Kashmir.
Furthermore 2,395 individuals have lost their lives to the epidemic in Sindh, 2,195 in Punjab, 1,250 in KP, 141 in Balochistan, 175 in Islamabad, 67 in GB and 61 in Azad Kashmir.
Pakistan has so far conducted 2,581,695 coronavirus tests and 22,434 in last 24 hours. 280,340 coronavirus patients have recovered in the country whereas 642 patients are in critical condition. Similarly, the virus affected 4,180 children of 1-15 year age group in Punjab as they were confirmed patients of the disease.
The health experts believed that Punjab with 56 per cent of the country’s total population is reporting lowest percentage of the virus - a good sign for analysts.
Sharing expertise, they said under the present circumstances chances to curtail the virus in Punjab increased which had been reporting highest ratio during its peak.
The statistics pertaining to the last five days showed a visible decline in the new confirmed cases and deaths.
On Aug 26, only 75 new positive cases were reported and 74 on 25th. Similarly, the province had reported 74 on Aug 27 and 96 on 28th.
The health experts feared that the threat of resurgence of the virus would be in case of sheer violation of standard operating procedure (SOPs) during Muharram.
They said the first three weeks of September would be important to decide the future of Covid-19 in Punjab and Pakistan as well.
As per primary and secondary healthcare department here on Saturday, of the 63 new cases, 17 were reported from Lahore where the total number reached 48,748 with 849 deaths.
A total of 9,603 tests were performed during the last 24 hours.
