New Delhi: India registered 152,419 new Covid-19 cases on April 10. As many as 837 deaths were also recorded on the day. Daily infections in the country crossed the 125,000 mark for the fourth consecutive day on April 10.
The figures do not include cases and deaths from Ladakh U.T. as of 12.10 a.m. on April 11. The data is sourced from covid19india.org, an independent aggregator of daily COVID-19 figures.
Since April 5, more than 1 million samples have been tested daily in the country, according to the ICMR. As many as 1,364,205 new tests were conducted on April 8, the highest in more than five months. As many as 1,173,219 new samples were tested on April 9, results for which were made available on April 10.
The country has so far reported a total of 13,355,319 cases and 169,304 deaths.
Maharashtra reported 55,411 infections (accounting for nearly 41 percent of the new cases) on Saturday, followed by Uttar Pradesh with 12,748 new infections and Delhi with 7,897 new cases
Maharashtra also recorded the maximum casualties (309) on April 10. Punjab followed with 58 new deaths, while Gujarat registered 49 new casualties.
India continues to register the highest total daily cases in the world. The total confirmed cases of Covid-19 registered in India as of April 9 (13,202,900) is now marginally behind Brazil with 13,373,174 which has the second-highest tally in the world.
Over 18 percent of the total new cases in the world between April 3-9 were registered in India alone. In terms of registered daily deaths though, Brazil (3,693), the U.S. (958) and Mexico (874) recorded higher numbers than India (794) in the same period.
Source: thehindu.com