Friday, 07 May 2021 | Rajesh Kumar | New Delhi
India has contributed half of the world Covid cases in the past 24 hour. Of the total 8,43,709 Covid cases reported across the world on Wednesday, India contributed over 4.12 lakh cases. This is the highest single-day case reported by any country in the world. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 19.26 per cent.
According to the worldometers.info data, the US, the worst affected country, has reported 46,129 in the last 24 hours. The rate of daily new infections fell below 50,000 per day over the weekend and continues to decline in the US. The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 33,321,244 and 5,93,148 respectively.
The new cases and deaths in India hit a record daily high with 4,12,262 new infections and 3,980 fatalities being reported, taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 2,10,77,410 and the death toll to 2,30,168.
The active cases have increased to 35,66,398 comprising 16.92 per cent of total infections. On April 30, it had reported 4.08 lakh cases. The last one million cases for India have come in just three days.
Brazil, the third worst affected country reported 75,652 cases. France and Turkey have reported 26,000 and 26,476 cases respectively. In terms of deaths, Brazil comes second with 4,14,399 fatalities across the world.
The other countries with more than two million confirmed coronavirus cases are Brazil (14,936,464), France (5,706,378), Turkey (4,955,594), Russia (4,855,128), the UK (4,425,940), Italy (4,070,400), Spain (3,551,262), Germany (3,469,448), Argentina (3,071,496), Colombia (2,934,611), Poland (2,818,378), Iran (2,610,018), Mexico (2,355,985) and Ukraine (2,097,024).
Nations with a death toll of over 50,000 are Mexico (2,17,740), the UK (1,27,570), Italy (1,22,005), Russia (1,11,895), France (1,05,631), Germany (84,593 ), Spain (78,566), Colombia (76,015), Iran (73,568), Poland (68,482), Argentina (65,865), Peru (62,674) and South Africa (54,557).
India’s first case was detected in late January 2020 and the country’s total did not cross 10 million infections until December but the next 10 million cases were reported in the span of just under five months, mostly in April. The Covid tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020; 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. India crossed the grim milestone of 2 crore on May 4.
In its weekly report, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, India accounted for 46 per cent of global cases and 25 per cent of global deaths reported in the one week. India reported nearly 2.6 million new cases, a 20 per cent increase on the previous week, and 23,231 deaths in the last seven days. Worldwide, 5.7 million new cases were reported last week and more than 93,000 deaths. The overall global Covid cases has topped 1,55,922,363 while the deaths have surged to more than 3,258,295.
The data showed that the highest numbers of new cases were reported from India (25,97,285 new cases, an increase of 20 per cent), Brazil (4,21,933 new cases; an increase of 4 per cent), the United States of America (3,45,692 new cases; an increase of 15 per cent) in the last one week.
The South-East Asia Region reported over 2.7 million new cases and over 25,000 new deaths, a 19 per cent and a 48 per cent increase respectively compared to the previous week. Turkey and France have reported a decline of active cases 32 per cent and 23 per cent respectively. The African Region reported over 42,000 new cases and 1,000 new deaths in the past one week, a 15 per cent and a 13 per cent decrease respectively compared to the previous week.
The data further stated that, the highest numbers of new deaths were reported from India (23,231 new deaths; 1.7 new deaths per 1,00,000; a 53 per cent increase), Indonesia (1,152 new deaths; 0.4 new deaths per 1,00,000; a 2 per cent decrease), and Bangladesh (558 new deaths; 0.3 new deaths per 1,00,000; a 17 per cent decrease).
