Over 9K new Covid cases reported in India, death tally increases

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• Aug 27, 2022 | Guriya Khatun

The data further reported that there are already 4,37,83,788 people who have recovered from the illness, while the case fatality rate is 1.19 percent.

Digital Desk: As per the data of the Union Health Ministry, India reported 9,520 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total to 4, 43, 98,696. The total number of active patients has fallen to 87,311.

The data updated at 8 am showed that the number of people who have died as a result of the sickness has increased to 5,27,597, with 41 new fatalities being recorded, including four deaths that Kerala reconciled.

According to the health ministry, the number of current cases now makes up 0.20 percent of all infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has risen to 98.62 percent.

The active COVID-19 caseload has decreased by 3,396 cases during the last day, the data stated.

According to the ministry, the weekly positivity rate is 2.80% and the daily positivity rate at 2.50%.

The data further reported that there are already 4,37,83,788 people who have recovered from the illness, while the case fatality rate is 1.19 percent.

The ministry reports that the country has already received 211.91 crore doses of the COVID vaccine as part of the nationwide vaccination campaign.

On August 7, 2020, the number of COVID-19 cases in India reached 20 lakh, on August 23, 30 lakh, on September 5, 50 lakh, on September 16, on September 28, on October 11, 80 lakh, on November 20, and on December 19, 2020, it reached one million.

It is to be noted that on May 4, 2021, June 23, 2021, and January 25, this year, the nation passed the sombre milestones of two crore cases, three crore, and four crore, respectively.

A total of 37 new cases of disease-related deaths were reported in the nation a day ago, including six from Haryana, four from Maharashtra, three from each of Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan, and West Bengal, two from each of Delhi, Gujarat, and Odisha, and one each from Chandigarh, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh.