Coronavirus India Cases: Maharashtra remains the state hit hardest by the pandemic. (Representational)
New Delhi:
Coronavirus India Live Updates: A single-day spike of 78,357 cases has push India’s coronavirus tally to 37,69,523, the Union Health Ministry data on Wednesday showed. The death count has risen to 66,333 with 1,045 more fatalities.
29,01,908 patients have recovered from the infection in the country, pushing the recovery rate to 76.98 per cent.
Maharashtra remains the state hit hardest by the pandemic, with 8,08,306 COVID-19 cases, including 24,903 deaths. Maharashttra is followed by three southern states – Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. India is the country with the third-highest coronavirus caseload in the world after the United States and Brazil.
Delhi reported its highest single-day spike in coronavirus cases in nearly two months on Tuesday. The capital reported 2,312 fresh coronavirus cases and 18 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total to over 1.77 lakh.
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“The United States will continue to engage our international partners to ensure we defeat this virus, but we will not be constrained by multilateral organizations influenced by the corrupt World Health Organization and China,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement.
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The analysis – which pooled data from separate trials of low dose hydrocortisone, dexamethasone and methylprednisolone – found that steroids improve survival rates of COVID-19 patients sick enough to be in intensive care in hospital.
