India's Covid-19 tally reached 55,62,663 with 86,961 people being infected in the past 24 hours, while 43,96,399 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 80.12 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
The total coronavirus cases mounted to 55,62,663 on Tuesday, while the death toll climbed to 88,935 with the infection claiming 1,130 lives in a span of 24 hours in the country, the data updated at 8 am showed. The Covid -19 case fatality rate due to coronavirus has further declined to 1.6 per cent. There are 10,03,299 active cases in the country as of now, which comprises 18.28 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
India's Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20,00,000 mark on August 7, 30,00,000 on August 23, 40,00,000 on September 5 and it went past 50,00,000 on September 16.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 6,43,92,594 samples have been tested up to September 20, with 7,31,534 samples being tested on Sunday. Of the 1,130 fresh deaths, 455 were reported from Maharashtra, 101 from Karnataka, 94 from Uttar Pradesh, 61 from West Bengal, 60 from Tamil Nadu, 57 from Andhra Pradesh, 56 from Punjab, 27 from Madhya Pradesh, 37 from Delhi and 29 from Haryana.
Seventeen deaths took place in Gujarat, 16 in Kerala, 14 each in Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and Rajasthan, 13 each in Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh, 10 in Odisha. Nine fatalities have been reported each in Telangana and Goa, six in Tripura, four each in Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh, three each in Bihar and Sikkim and two each in Manipur and Jharkhand.
Of the total deaths, Maharashtra has reported the maximum at 32,671, followed by 8,811 in Tamil Nadu, 8,023 in Karnataka, 5,359 in Andhra Pradesh, 4,982 in Delhi, 5,047 in Uttar Pradesh, 4,359 in West Bengal, 3,319 in Gujarat and 2,813 in Punjab.
Goa worst hit in cases/m, Puducherry in deaths/m
Maharashtra and the southern states have been under the Covid-19 spotlight for the high number of cases and deaths being reported daily from these places. However, proportionate to their relatively tiny populations, Goa and Puducherry are actually worse affected with one having the highest cases per million population and the other the highest deaths per million from the pandemic.
Goa has so far reported 17,392 cases per million, and Puducherry is at second place with 14,097, followed by Delhi (11,770) and Andhra Pradesh (11,496). Maharashtra, which is far ahead of any other state in total coronavirus cases, having recorded more than 1.1 million infections so far, comes in sixth in cases per million at 9,352.
Puducherry has recorded 284 deaths per million, higher than Maharashtra, which is placed second with 256 fatalities per million, followed by Delhi (245), Goa (212) and Andaman & Nicobar Islands (212).
