COVID-19 recoveries in India cross 33-lakh mark, death toll surpasses 72,000
Coronavirus India Cases Today: India reported a single-day spike of 75,809 new COVID-19 cases and 1,133 deaths in the last 24 hours, as of Tuesday morning.
The total number of coronavirus cases in India has increased to 42,80,423 out of which 8,83,697 are active cases, 33,23,951 have been cured and discharged while 72,775 have died due to the pandemic, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. A total of 73,521 COVID patients in India were declared cured and recovered in the last 24 hours.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 5,06,50,128 samples have been tested up to September 7, 2020. Of these, 10,98,621 samples were tested on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that India is in talks about joining 'COVAX' global COVID-19 vaccine allocation plan. The senior WHO adviser Bruce Aylward said that "India is certainly eligible to be part of the COVAX facility and discussions are underway regarding the same."
Earlier, the WHO had stated that 172 countries are engaging with COVAX facilities designed to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
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As India surpassed Brazil to become the second worst-affected nation in the world, the editor of Chinese news agency Global Times, Hu Xijin, said: "India’s medical condition doesn’t match that of the US. If it follows the US step, responding to the pandemic with an anti-science attitude, it will pay a devastating price. Virus-fight should be prioritized in India, before everything else. Has India done that?"
-PTC News
