India becomes 3rd nation to cross 4 lakh COVID deaths, after USA and Brazil, and this too after evidence of massive underreporting of deaths.
In the last 4 hours, with 853 deaths, India’s total death toll has reached 4,00,312 due to COVID-19, behind the USA’s 6.05 lakh and Brazil’s 5.2 lakh.
In the last 24 hours, maximum fatalities were reported in Maharashtra (252), followed by Kerala with 124 daily deaths.
The top five states which recorded maximum cases are Kerala with 12,868 cases, followed by Maharashtra with 9,195 cases, Tamil Nadu with 4,481 cases, Andhra Pradesh with 3,841 cases, and Karnataka with 3,203 cases. Also, India recorded 46,617 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, apprised the Union health ministry on Friday. A total of 59,384 patients have recovered during the same time.
Nevertheless, with the daily recoveries continuing to outnumber the new cases for the 50th consecutive day now, the total number of recovered patients has increased to 2,95,48,302. The country’s recovery rate has risen to 96.75 percent which is good news.
India’s active caseload has receded by 13,620 in the last 24 hours now standing at 5,09,637.
Meanwhile, India administered a total of 42,64,123 vaccination doses in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally of doses inoculated to 34,00,76,232.
Though India has crossed 4-lakh COVID-related deaths, people are skeptical of the figures suspecting the death rate to be much higher due to the heavy underreporting of COVID-related deaths in many states in India for two reasons, one is to display their efficiency in containing the pandemic and the other would be that with new orders issued by the Supreme Court of ensuring COVID-related victims’ families get compensation, death rates could be manipulated to be kept low, and it is anticipated that the real death figures would be much more horrifying!!