NEW DELHI - India now has more than 2 million cases of coronavirus and the third-highest number of case in the world after the United States and Brazil – though its death rate of about 2% is far lower than the other hardest-hit countries.
According to John Hopkins University, the rate in the US is 3.3% and 3.4% in Brazil. India’s health ministry said 62,585 cases were reported in the past 24 hours on Friday, raising the nation’s total to 2,027,074. The number of reported deaths among those suffering from Covid-19 stands at 41,585. The world’s second-most populated country has seen cases spike since the government began lifting lockdown in an effort to kickstart its flagging economy, with the government predicting negative economic growth this year.
But the ministry said only a third of the 2 million cases are currently active, with the country also recording its highest-ever number of recoveries on Thursday. Visit our live blog for the latest updates: Coronavirus news live The first registered Covid-19 case was detected in late January and it took more than 170 days to reach a million cases – but it then took just three weeks to double. That means the country now has the fastest growth rate in the world. As life cautiously returned to the streets of the capital New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai — both of which are believed to have passed their peaks — state and local governments elsewhere in the country were reimposing lockdowns after the sharp rises in cases.(FA)
India virus cases exceed two million
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