Covid-19 cases near 60K-mark
70% DEATHS BECAUSE OF COMORBIDITIES: CENTRE TESTING CAPACITY SCALED UP TO 95,000 PER DAY
The death toll because of Covid-19 rose to 1,981 and the number of cases climbed to 59,662 in the country on Saturday. There were 95 deaths and 3,320 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry. The number of active Covid-19 cases stood at 39,834, while 17,846 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said. “Thus, around 29.91 per cent patients have recovered so far,” a senior health ministry official said. The total number of cases also include 111 foreign nationals.
The testing capacity for has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said.
A total of 95 deaths were reported since Friday morning, of which 37 were in Maharashtra, 24 in Gujarat, nine in West Bengal, seven in Madhya Pradesh, four each from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, three from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, two from Delhi, and one each from Punjab and Haryana.
Jharkhand has recorded three Covid-19 fatalities. Odisha and Himachal Pradesh have reported two deaths each.
Meghalaya, Chandigarh, Assam and Uttarakhand have reported one fatality each, according to the Union health ministry’s data.
According to the ministry’s website, 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities.
However, a PTI tally of the figures reported by various states as on Friday evening showed 59,100 cases 1,904 deaths in the country.
There has been a lag in the Union health ministry figures, compared to the number of deaths announced by different states, which officials attribute to procedural delays in assigning the cases to individual states.
According to the health ministry data updated in the morning, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 19,063, followed by Gujarat at 7,402, Delhi at 6,318, Tamil Nadu at 6,009, Rajasthan at 3,579, Madhya Pradesh at 3,341 and Uttar Pradesh at 3,214. The number of Covid-19 cases has gone up to 1,887 in Andhra Pradesh and 1,731 in Punjab.
It has risen to 1,678 in West Bengal, 1,133 in Telangana, 823 in Jammu and Kashmir, 753 in Karnataka, 647 in Haryana and 571 in Bihar.
Kerala has reported 503 coronavirus cases so far, while Odisha has 271 cases. A total of 150 people have been infected with the deadly virus in Chandigarh and 132 in Jharkhand.