Maintaining the plateau of over 6,000 cases, India today crossed the psychological 150,000 mark of total COVID-19 cases so far. However, it also posted a strong recovery rate of 42.44 per cent as at least 3,935 people were also cured during the day.
A total of 6,387 new cases took the nationwide tally to 1,51,767, the country’s health ministry data revealed today. There were also 170 new deaths in the past 24 hours, 97 of them in Maharashtra where there were over four deaths each hour.
It took the country just four days to reach the over 150,000 figure from 1,25,101 on 23 May. With this, India continues to remain as the tenth worst hit country by the pandemic globally.
The rising number of cases in the country dosen’t seem to get any respite even with the rising temperature as some experts had opined.
Globally the cases of COVID-19 topped at 5.6 million and over 300,000 fatalities. ♦
