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86% of cases reported in last 40 days
Nearly 86 percent cases of coronavirus disease in India have been reported in the last 40 days
New Delhi: Nearly 86 per cent cases of coronavirus disease in India have been reported in the last 40 days. Also, 84 per cent of the patients died between May and June. May was the worst month for India as far as spread of the disease is concerned. One lakh fifty three thousand cases were reported in the 31 days of May.
The government issued orders to ease restrictions in the country and restart economic activities from June 1. In these nine days, the country has seen more than 76,000 cases of Covid-19.
COVID-19 cases have touched 7.2 million globally, with more than 411,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
India on Wednesday reported a spike of 9,985 more COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country's COVID-19 count to 2,76,583, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
279 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours taking the total death toll to 7,745. The total number of active cases has reached 1,33,632 while 1,35,205 patients have recovered.
With 90,787 cases, Maharashtra reported the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country followed by Tamil Nadu with 34,914 cases. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, 1,45,216 samples were tested in the last 24 hours while overall 50,61,332 samples have been tested so far.
