Coronavirus India Updates: India Cases Top 4.5 Lakh As Fresh Cases Mount

Over 4.5 lakh people have been infected by the deadly Covid-19 virus in India reported the highest number of new cases in the span of a day.

The country added nearly 16,000 new Covid-19 cases, taking the total tally to 4,56,183, according to Health Ministry’s 8 a.m update on June 24. However, over 2.5 lakh of these cases have been declared as “cured/discharged”.

Key Numbers

• Total number of confirmed coronavirus cases: 4,56,183
• Active cases: 1,83,022
• Cured/discharged/migrated: 2,58,685
• Deaths: 14,476

Authorities reported 15,968 new cases, 465 deaths and 10,495 recoveries in the 24 hours preceding the update.

Global Update

Beijing reported fewer additional local coronavirus infections, in a further sign that a recent outbreak is coming under control. The government last week declared that the peak has passed for the recent outbreak in the capital, the country’s worst since Wuhan, the city where the pathogen first appeared.

Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious-disease expert, told Congress he was seeing a “disturbing surge” of cases.

Globally total cases passed 9.1 million while deaths topped 474,000.

Track news and developments around the outbreak in India here.

The BMC has launched an aggressive testing campaign in Mumbai where mobile dispensary vans will be used to carry out tests.

The United Nations chief criticised the total lack of international coordination in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic and warned that the go-it-alone policy of many countries will not defeat the coronavirus.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview with The Associated Press that what needs to be done is to make countries understand that by acting in isolation they are creating the situation that is getting out of control and that global coordination is key.

Covid-19 started in China, moved to Europe, then to North America and now to South America, Africa and India, he said, and some people are now talking about second waves coming at any moment.

Yet, he said, there is total lack of coordination among countries in the response to the Covid.

Guterres said it's important to use that fact to make countries understand that bringing them together, putting together their capacities, not only in fighting the pandemic in a coordinated way but in working together to have the treatments, testing mechanisms, the vaccines accessible to everybody, that this is the way we defeat the pandemic.

Source: PTI

India saw the mot number of deaths in one day, over the last 24 hours, besides the day Maharashtra and Delhi revised the number of deaths reported by them.

465 people across India succumbed to the illness over the day gone by, according to data made available by the health ministry. That’s second only to the 2,003 deaths reported on June 17, which included over 1,300 deaths which previously went unreported in Maharashtra alone.