India's coronavirus tally stands at 11,55,191 cases after 37,148 new infections were recorded in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said, adding that the country recorded 587 deaths linked to the highly contagious since Monday. More than 720,000 patients have recovered so far. A total of 28,084 Covid-19 linked deaths have been recorded since the beginning of the pandemic. India is the third worst-hit country by the pandemic after the United States and Brazil.
Maharashtra continues to report the highest number of cases, followed by Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat and West Bengal.
Congress leader Marri Shashidhar Reddy alleged that there is a lack of transparency by Telangana government with regard to releasing the Covid-19 bulletin.
"We have been saying from the beginning that there is lack of transparency. The bulletins that are been put by the Telangana Government do not follow any standard proforma and the information is put out very selectively. Nowhere in the country and world have there this kind of lack of transparency," the Congress leader said.
"I do not know who the state government is trying to fool. The data that is available is not complete for any meaningful decisions to be taken," he added.
Gujarat reports record 965 cases in a day
Gujarat recorded yet another high daily tally with 965 cases in 24 hours, taking the state’s caseload to 48,441. It's the state's seventh consecutive day of 900-plus cases and 17th highest daily tally in July. The state also recorded deaths of 20 Covid-19 patients in 24 hours, taking the death toll to 2,147. It was the state’s highest daily death toll in the past fortnight.
The new cases included 285 from Surat, 212 from Ahmedabad, 79 from Vadodara and 49 from Rajkot. The deaths included nine from Surat, six from Ahmedabad, two from Dahod and one each from Bhavnagar, Gir Somnath and Jamnagar.
With the update, the state now has 11,412 active cases, which are 23.6% of total cases. The share of discharged and deceased patients in total tally is 72% and 4.4%.
Analysis of the cases of the past one week reveals that it was the highest ever weekly tally for the state with addition of 6,535 cases – at an average of 933 cases daily. Share of the regions in the weekly tally was - Kutch 1.3%, north Gujarat 9.3%, central-east Gujarat 34%, Saurashtra 20.4% and south Gujarat 35%.
