New Delhi: Coronavirus India Live Updates: India has logged 65,002 cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours with 996 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday morning. The total number of cases in the country has now shot up to 25,26,192 with 49,036 deaths. A total of 18,08,936 COVID-19 patients have recovered from the infection, taking the recovery rate to 71.60 per cent, the ministry said on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the country has touched a new milestone with the highest number of COVID-19 tests in a single day so far, after a record high of 8,48,728 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative tests to 2,76,94,416 on Friday, said the Union Health Ministry.
World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised that a country needs 140 tests per day per million population.
While the national average is 603 tests/day/million population, with focussed efforts of the Centre and effective implementation by the states/UTs, 34 of them have exceeded this figure.
There are 1,451 labs with 958 in the government sector and 493 private labs.
"There are 749 Real-Time RT PCR based testing labs including 447 government and 302 private labs. A total of 586 TrueNat based testing labs are functioning in the country including 478 government and 108 private labs. There are 116 CBNAAT based testing labs in the country including 33 government labs and 83 private labs," Ministry said.
Here are the updates on coronavirus (COVID-19) cases:
Aug 16, 2020 01:52 (IST)
Jharkhand reports 480 new COVID-19 cases, 4 deaths on Saturday
With 480 new COVID-19 cases reported in Jharkhand on Saturday, the total number of coronavirus cases reached 22,672, the State Health Department said.
In a COVID-19 bulletin, the state government informed that four persons died due to the virus on Saturday.
The total count of coronavirus cases includes 14,181 recovered/discharged, 8,262 active cases, and 229 deaths, the department added.
Aug 16, 2020 01:40 (IST)
Indore reports 214 new COVID-19 cases
The Indore district of Madhya Pradesh reported 214 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday taking the total number of cases in the district to 9804, the state health department said.
The total number of deaths in Indore stood at 342.
Aug 15, 2020 23:53 (IST)
Total COVID-19 positive cases in Himachal Pradesh stands at 3,993 including 1,308 active cases, 2,632 recoveries and 17 deaths: State Health Department
Aug 15, 2020 23:11 (IST)
480 new COVID-19 positive cases, 370 recoveries/discharges and 4 deaths reported in Jharkhand today. Total number of cases now at 22,672 including 8,262 active cases, 14,181 recoveries/discharges and 229 deaths: State Health Department
Aug 15, 2020 20:01 (IST)
Delhi records 1,276 new coronavirus cases, tally reaches 1,51,928; death count mounts to 4,188.
Aug 15, 2020 19:16 (IST)
In the last 24 hours, Manipur reported 192 COVID-19 positive cases taking the total number of cases to 4,390 including 1939 active cases and 2,438 recoveries and 13 deaths: State Government