6L to 7L cases in just 5 days, fatalities breach 20K mark

Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 7

India’s Covid cases today crossed the seven lakh mark to rest at 7,19,665, with one lakh fresh infections being reported in the past five days. The country had reached six lakh cases on July 2.

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The single day surge in new cases was well over 20,000 for the fifth straight day with new cases over 24 hours being 22,252 and total fatalities breaching the 20,000 mark with a cumulative 20,160 Covid deaths. The last 24 hours saw 467 deaths.

Even as the cases rose, the government data showed that the overall recoveries per million people in India are 315.8 and far exceed overall active cases per million population which are 186.3. Analysis further show that the trend of recoveries beating active cases holds across even the highest Covid burden states.

In Delhi, recoveries per million are 3,497.1 as against 1,242.9 active cases per million. Corresponding figures for other states with maximum Covid cases are Maharashtra (per million recoveries outstrip per million active cases with 869.5 to 661.6 cases, respectively); Tamil Nadu (753 recoveries per million vis a vis 529.8 active cases per million); Haryana (480.9 recoveries as against 140.4 active cases per million); Gujarat (358.3 recoveries per million over 115.7 active cases per million).

Same trends run through Rajasthan, Odisha and UP.