COVID-19 cases push India's tally above 6 lakh

Thursday, 2 July 2020Newsdesk

India's COVID-19 tally zoomed past six lakh cases on Thursday with a single-day increase of 19,148 cases, just five days after it crossed the five-lakh mark, while the death toll rose to 17,834, according to the Union health ministry data.The COVID-19 case load increased to 6,04,641 while 434 people have succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.

New Delhi, 02 July 2020

As per news report of PTI, with a steady rise, the number of recoveries stands at 3,59,859 while one patient has migrated. There are 2,26,947 active cases of coronavirus infection presently in the country."Thus, around 59.52 per cent of patients have recovered so far," an official said.

Source - ptinews.com