India surpasses UK to become country with fourth highest Covid infections
New Delhi/IBNS: Adding almost 11,000 fresh Novel Coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, India, the country of 1.3 billion people, surpassed the United Kingdom to become the fourth worst-hit country in terms of Covid-19 infections.
India reported 10,956 fresh cases between Thursday and Friday mornings to push the overall tally to 2,97,535 including 8,498 deaths.
The UK, which is now placed at fifth position in the list of countries affected due to Covid, has so far reported 2,92,860 cases, according to John Hopkins University & Medicine data.
India, which has a poor health infrastructure, is now behind the United States, Brazil and Russia.
Recovered cases higher than active ones in India
Giving a ray of hope, the number of recovery cases in India have crossed the active cases.
As per the Indian Health Ministry's data, 1,47,195 people have recovered while 1,41,842 patients are still suffering from the contagion.
India not in community transmission stage: ICMR
Despite the steady rise in Covid-19 cases, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday claimed India was not in the community transmission stage.
ICMR DG Prof. Balram Bhargava told a press briefing here, "India is not in community transmission. We have to continue with our strategy of testing, tracing, tracking, quarantine and containment measures and we should not give up our guard on these."
The ICMR has also claimed India's mortality rate per lakh population is among the lowest in the world.
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