India’s coronavirus tally surged to 73.7 lakh cases after a fresh spike of 63,371 COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, the government data showed this morning. The number of fatalities stood at 1,12,161 after 895 deaths were registered in a day. The death rate is 1.5 per cent.
The number of deaths reported yesterday – 680 – were the lowest in two months. “India continues to have one of the lowest deaths per million population globally,” the Health Ministry tweeted this morning. He also listed 22 states and union territories that are performing better and reporting much lower deaths/million population than the national average of 80 deaths per million.