India’s Covid-19 cases hit 300,000 mark

India grew to become solely the fourth nation on the planet — after the United States, Brazil and Russia — to report greater than 300,000 instances of the coronavirus illness (Covid-19) on Friday, 103 days for the reason that begin of the outbreak within the nation, with the newest 100,000 instances added in simply the final 10 days, in line with HT’s Covid-19 dashboard.

The nation reported 11,172 new instances and 384 new deaths on Friday, taking the entire variety of instances to 309,324, and deaths to eight,882.

More than 57% of all instances in India may be traced to only three states – Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu — a proven fact that highlights how the unfold of the virus within the nation has largely been centered in a handful of scorching spot areas.

While the final 100,000 instances surfaced in solely 10 days; the earlier 100,000 instances took 15 days; and the primary 100,000 instances took 78 days. A little bit underneath 1 / 4 of all instances have been reported simply within the final week, with the entire instances doubling over the past 17 days.

An equivalent trajectory can also be seen within the variety of fatalities with greater than 1 / 4 of deaths coming in simply the previous week. At a mean, 329 deaths have been reported on daily basis prior to now week. This quantity was 238 within the seven days earlier than that. The case fatality fee (CFR) within the nation stood at 2.9%, considerably decrease than the worldwide determine of 5.6%.

As of Friday, 154,150 sufferers had recovered from Covid-19, which implies that almost half (49.8%) of people that had been contaminated have since been discharged from hospitals. In reality, simply this Tuesday, the variety of recovered sufferers within the nation outnumbered the variety of lively instances for the primary time. As of Friday night, there have been 146,292 lively instances in India.

In phrases of the areas within the nation which have turn into the recent spots of the pandemic, we see that Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu – the three worst-hit states – account for greater than 58% of all instances. If one consists of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh into the combination, it will account for almost three out of each 4 instances within the nation.

Globally, greater than 7.three million infections of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, and 420,000 deaths has been reported for the reason that virus was first reported within the central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan on the finish of final 12 months.