As India continues to register a new record every day in its coronavirus cases, experts have believed that its peak could be as early as mid-September if the government takes strong public health measures and people behave in a responsible manner. India on Sunday registered a spike of 38,902 new coronavirus cases and 543 deaths. The total positive cases in India now stands at 10,77,618 including 26,816 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Agra also continues to see an increase in the Covid-19 cases, triggering black marketing of essential medicines like Remdesivi known to have a positive effect on patients suffering from virus. Delhi reported 1,475 fresh cases, taking the overall coronavirus tally to 121,582.
Maharashtra, the worst-hit state by the coronavirus pandemic in the country, crossed the three lakh-mark on Saturday while its capital Mumbai crossed the grim milestone of one lakh cases with an addition of 1,186 new patients in the last 24 hours, the state health department said.
Delhi on Saturday reported a single-day coronavirus spike of 1,475 cases which took its aggregate to 1,21,582 cases. This is the eighth consecutive day that the national capital has recorded the daily COVID-19 increase within the range of 1,000-2,000 cases. The city's total recoveries stood at 1,01,274 with 1,973 people getting cured in the last 24 hours.
The number of confirmed infections worldwide has passed 14.2 million, out of which 3.7 million are in the United States. There are over 2 million in Brazil and more than 1 million in India. The World Health Organisation again reported a single-day record of new infections with 2,59,848.
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