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COVID-19 infected patients in India now crosses 1 lakh-mark, death toll stands at 3163

| @indiablooms | May 19, 2020, at 09:11 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The number of COVID-19 cases in India has crossed 1 lakh-mark while the death toll in the country now stands at 3163, as per data released by the Ministry of Health.

The number of active cases in the country now stands at 58802.

So far, 39173 people have recovered from the disease.

The number of globally confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has increased by 93,324 over the past 24 hours to surpass 4.6 million, and the death toll has topped 311,000 people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

The case tally currently amounts to 4,618,821, and the number of deaths stands at 311,847 - a rise by 4,452 over the past day, according to WHO on Monday.

The biggest number of cases has been registered in the America - 2,017,811, an increase by 50,879, with 121,609 deaths - a rise by 2,810.

The WHO declared the outbreak of the new coronavirus a pandemic on March 11.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the global case tally stands at 4,782,539, with 317,566 deaths and 1,776,388 recoveries.

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