India registered a record number of fresh Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, crossing the 70,000-mark for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic. With 70,101 new cases, the country’s tally crossed the 28-lakh mark at 28,33,015.
Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have reported the highest number of cases. However, infections are rising rapidly in states like Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Yet, India’s recovery rate continues to rise and now stands at 73 percent. ‘Unlock 3.0’ is underway.
Maharashtra, the worst-hit state in India, recorded its highest one-day count of 13,165 coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, Delhi Disaster Management Authority has given its approval for opening of hotels and weekly markets in the national capital.
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While COVID-19 has affected every business across the country, as a mode of consumption, e-commerce could grow much faster after the pandemic, according to a report released by ecommerce software platform Unicommerce.
Quoting pre-COVID reports, which said that the ecommerce market in India would be worth $200 billion in size by 2027, Unicommerce said that given the digitisation due to COVID, this number would be attained much faster.
There may be at least six lakh people in Hyderabad who have been infected by the new coronavirus with a large number of them asymptomatic and need no hospitalisation, according to a study.
Conducted by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology and CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, the study said individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 shed virus not only through nasal and oral routes but also through faeces.
Seventy-five more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, taking its tally to 2,604, a health official said today. All the new cases were detected during contact tracing, he said.
The fresh infections have pushed the total number of active cases in the Union Territory to 1,045, the official said.
Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in India have risen to 28,36,925, according to the latest update from the Union Health Ministry. This number includes cases involving foreign nationals, patients who have recovered and the death toll.
The COVID-19 tally in Mumbai rose to 1.3 lakh yesterday with 1,132 new patients being reported, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
The death toll due to the pandemic rose to 7,265 with 46 new fatalities, it added. The city has a recovery rate of 80 percent. The civic body also said that presently there are only 17,917 active patients in Mumbai.
West Bengal's COVID-19 tally rose to 1.25 lakh yesterday following a single-day spike of 3,169 cases, while the death toll mounted to 2,581 with 53 more fatalities, the state health department said.
The recovery rate in the state improved to 75.9 percent after 2,973 patients recovered from the disease since August 18, it said in a bulletin.
Odisha's COVID-19 caseload yesterday went up to 67,122 with 2,589 people testing positive, while the death toll rose to 372 after 10 patients succumbed to the infection, a health official said.
The state also registered recovery of 1,621 patients taking the total number of people who have been cured of the disease to 46,936, which is 69.92 per cent of the total cases.