The massive surge in the cases have taken India's overall tally to 236657, which includes 115942 active cases,as per the figures released by Health and Family Welfare.Meanwhile the recovery rate is pretty high with 114073 patients cured and discharged and 6642 deaths.
India which is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of COVID-19 cases has now overtaken Italy to become the sixth most affected country . India rose to the sixth spot after the total tally of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in India rose to 2.35 lakh on Friday, data from America’s Johns Hopkins University showed.
India had crossed China, where the virus emerged late last year, in terms of cases for the ninth spot just a week ago. Figures from the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University showed around midnight that India had 235,769 Covid-19 cases and Italy 236,184. With 6,641 deaths, India has now ranked the 12th worst-hit country.
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According to Johns Hopkins data, the US has the most number of infected people in the world with more than 1.8 million Covid-19 cases. The US has 18,80,703 infections and 1,08,496 deaths. Of these, 485,002 people have been cured of the infection. Meanwhile, the other worst affected nations which round off the top five are Brazil, Russia, Italy and Spain.