India's Coronavirus tally crossed the 27-lakh mark on Tuesday with 55,079 fresh cases in 24 hours, while the toll climbed to 51,797 with 876 more fatalities, said the Health Ministry.
Over the past week, India's average of new COVID-19 cases is 60,000 per day. The number itself is quite alarming as it is much higher than the US and Brazil, the top two worst-hit countries.
According to the WHO's data, the country- third worst-affected by the pandemic after the United States and Brazil - have been reporting a higher daily surge in caseload for the past 12 days.
The United States, pandemic's epicenter - has registered over 53 lakh cases so far, Brazil has recorded over 33 lakh cases, about 7 lakh more than India.
India's recovery rate has shown drastic improvement over the past few weeks as it now stands near 73.17 percent. Out of the total 27,02,742 cases, recoveries have surged to 19,77,779 with 57,937 more people recuperating in the past 24 hours, improving the recovery rate.
The actual caseload of the country is the active cases, which currently stands at 6,73,166.
The country had touched the 20-lakh mark on August 7 and added more than seven lakh cases in 11 days.
The silver lining, however, is that the gap between recoveries and active cases is growing every day. Currently, recoveries are over 12 lakh more than the active cases.
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As far as the death toll is concerned, the country had registered its first death on March 13 and crossed the 25,000-mark on July 17. The next 25,000 deaths were logged in the span of a month.
Notably, the case fatality rate, which is the proportion of people who die from the disease among individuals diagnosed, has dropped to 1.91 percent, the ministry said. As many as 8,99,864 samples were tested on Monday.
Maharashtra remained the worst-hit state with a total of 5,95,865 cases and 20,037 deaths; followed by Tamil Nadu with 3,38,055 cases and 5,766 deaths. The southern state is followed by Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar.