- Karnataka health minister tests positive
- 1,007 deaths in India
NEW DELHI,(Sanjay Minka)-With 62,064 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the total caseload in India has now risen to 22,15,075. Of these, 6,34,945 are active cases, while 15,35,744 patients have already been discharged, data from the Union Health Ministry showed. As many as 1007 deaths were reported, taking the casualties to 44,386. For the last four days, now, Covid-19 cases have in India have risen by over 60,000. For the last six days, India has been reporting more novel Coronavirus infections than any other country in the world. The United States and Brazil, two countries that have greater number of people infected by the virus till now, have been finding fewer number of new cases every day during this period, while India’s case numbers have been increasing steadily, with more than 60,000 new cases for the last three days. The numbers in the United States and Brazil have not gone past lower 50,000s in the last three days.
