New Delhi, October 16:
India’s coronavirus caseload went past 7.3 million mark as the country logged 67,708 new infections between Wednesday and Thursday. While India continued its recent downward trajectory of new cases, the spike on Thursday rose marginally from that on Wednesday, when 63,509 cases were reported. Also on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a review meeting of research and vaccine deployment system against Covid-19. During the meeting, he directed health authorities to scale up testing and serosurveys.
Elsewhere, the caseload of the United States, the world’s worst-hit country, went past the eight million, making it the first country to breach the mark. It recorded 60,000 new cases on Wednesday—the highest since August 14—to cross the eight million mark. India, Brazil, Russia and Spain, in that order, are the next four worst-hit countries.
India’s Covid-19 tally reaches 7,370,468 with 63,371 new cases in last 24 hours. With 895 new fatalities, death toll reaches 112,161. Active cases at 804,528, recoveries at 6,453,779 and death toll at 112,161.
