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India’s surge in virus cases third fastest globally

| Updated: June 16, 2020 11:07:19


Healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and volunteers walk through a slum in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, to check residents during a lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, June 07, 2020. — Reuters/Files Healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and volunteers walk through a slum in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, to check residents during a lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, June 07, 2020. — Reuters/Files

With 11,220 new COVID-19 cases and 325 deaths registered on Sunday, the total number of infections and the death toll in India reached 3,32,777 and 9,521 respectively, according to data collated by The Hindu.

The recovery rate was nearly 51 per cent. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the total number of samples tested on Sunday was 1,51,432, up from 1,43,737 on Saturday. Maharashtra led the tally with 3,390 new cases and 120 deaths. Delhi registered 2,224 cases and 56 deaths.

India now ranks third, behind Brazil and the US in the daily increase in COVID-19 cases (07-day rolling average) across the world.

In the number of deaths registered every day, India ranks fourth below Brazil, the US and Mexico. It again ranks fourth in terms of total number of cases behind the US (with nearly 2.1 million), Brazil (8,50,514) and Russia (5,28,267) and ninth in total fatalities, according to the Johns Hopkins University's COVID-19 tracker.

While India's infection rate in terms of cases per million people was much lower, the country has conducted fewer tests per million (3,000) than others with the most infections, according to data maintained by the website Our World in Data.

The comparable testing rates for the US, Russia and the UK are 70,000, 99,870 and 55,860 respectively. Brazil’s testing data was not available.

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