64,553 brand-new COVID-19 cases press India's tally to 24.61 lakh, death toll crosses 48,000

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The nation’s coronavirus tally touched has increased to 24,61,191 including 6,61,595 active cases, and 17,51,556 released cases.

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New Delhi: Individuals provide swab samples for coronavirus testing at a mobile COVID-19 screening centre, in New Delhi on Aug 13,2020 (Image: IANS)

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Abhishek Sharma

Upgraded: Aug 14, 2020, 10: 21 AM IST

As lots of as 64,553 new coronavirus cases were reported in India in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Well-being.

The nation’s coronavirus tally touched has actually risen to 24,61,191 including 6,61,595 active cases, and 17,51,556 discharged cases.

An overall of 1,007 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 48,040, data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.

With the world’s most significant caseload behind the United States and Brazil, India has now reported a dive of 50,000 cases or more each day for 16 straight days.

COVID-19 screening continues to grow and 8,48,728 samples were evaluated on August 13 which is the highest in a single day so far.

Over 2.76 crore samples have actually been checked up until now, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research Study (ICMR).

On Thursday, the Union Health Ministry said that the week-wise average day-to-day tests carried out saw a sharp boost from around 2.3 lakh in the very first week of July 2020 to more than 6.3 lakh in the present week.

With an increasing number of recoveries, while the healing rate has crossed 70 per cent, the case mortality among COVID-19 patients has actually further regressed to 1.96 percent and steadily decreasing, the ministry had said.

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