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Covid-19 India Updates: 35,000 New Infections, 483 Deaths Reported In A Day

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<div class="paragraphs"><p>A medical store remains open as other shops at a market are closed due to lockdown restrictions in Jalgaon, Maharashtra. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)</p></div>
A medical store remains open as other shops at a market are closed due to lockdown restrictions in Jalgaon, Maharashtra. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
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India reported more than 35,000 new Covid-19 infections in a day, at a time the world's second most populous nation is bracing for the third wave.

Around 35,300 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry's update as of 8:00 a.m. on July 23. Recoveries during the same period were higher at nearly 39,000, taking the active caseload marginally lower.

Key Coronavirus Data

  • Total confirmed cases: 3,12,93,062

  • Total number of active cases: 4,05,513

  • Total patients cured/discharged/migrated: 3,04,68,079

  • Total deaths: 4,19,470

  • Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 35,342

  • Number of recoveries in a day: 38,740

  • Deaths recorded in a day: 483

Opinion
With 50,000 Cases a Day, One Country Opens Up as Another Suffers

India’s actual death toll from Covid-19 could range between 1.3 million to a staggering 5 million, if you go by numbers derived from research models and local authority data. Even by the most conservative estimate, the real toll of the pandemic has been vastly underestimated because of a combination of under-counting, a backlog in the civil registration system and a lack of testing leading to Covid deaths being classified under other conditions like heart disease.

States have started clearing some of the backlog in recording Covid data. Maharashtra became the latest state to carry out a reconciliation exercise on Tuesday, adding 2,497 cases and 3,509 deaths to the total tally.