India’s Coronavirus tally reached 2.76 lakh mark as 9985 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the last 24 hours. The death toll in the country reached 7745 this morning with 279 deaths being reported in the last 24 hours.
India has now become the fifth country in the world with highest number of Coronavirus cases after USA, Brazil, Russia and United Kingdom, the John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre data revealed.
While Mumbai has been the worst hit Covid-19 state with over 50,000 cases being reported so far, Delhi too has recorded 31,309 cases with 1366 new positive cases being reported in the past 24 hours.
However, reports reveal that the slow rise in Delhi’s Covid-19 cases is due to the lower testing rate.
From conducting more than 7,500 tests in one day to 3,700, the number of samples collected for novel coronavirus has gone down in the national capital over the past one week, Somrita Ghosh reported for The Indian Express.
While 7,649 samples were collected on May 30, highest in recent past, it came down to only 3,700 on June 8. Owing to fewer samples collected over the past few days, cases registered in Delhi has also gone down.
The new cases registered on June 9, was 1,366 which is comparatively low as compared to days when cases touched above 1,500-mark last week, the express report read.
The overall rise in Covid-19 cases is seen as a result of easing the restrictions across India. Places of worship, malls opened earlier this week after the Indian government released guidelines.
Globally, over 7 million people have contracted the virus since the beginning of the pandemic; nearly 4 lakh have died.
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