India Crosses 1 Crore Cases: Here’s the COVID-19 Journey in Graphs

Close to 11 months after the first COVID-19 case, India has crossed the mark of 1 crore on Saturday.

Arun Dev
India
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India is inching towards the 1 crore COVID cases mark. 
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India is inching towards the 1 crore COVID cases mark. 
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Close to 11 months after the first COVID-19 case was reported in India, the country crossed the mark of one crore total cases on Saturday, 19 December, with 25,153 new infections. Death toll in India stands at 1,45,136, while the total numbers of recovered and active cases are at 95,50,712 and 3,08,751, respectively.

The number of infections had crossed the 10 lakh-mark on July 17; 20 lakh on August 7; 30 lakh on August 23; 40 lakh on September 5; 50 lakh on September 16; 60 lakh on September 28; 70 lakh on October 11; 80 lakh on October 29; and 90 lakh on November 20.

Here is a graphical representation of India’s COVID journey so far.

India stands number two in terms of total confirmed cases, ranking second to the United States.

Here is a look at the cases reported daily in India. The number of cases has drastically come down since. The active caseload is also below four lakh for the last 12 days. India is one of the top countries with the highest recovery rate globally.

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All major states in the country are now showing a decline in the number of cases. Maharashtra continues to be the state with the highest number of cases in the country, followed by Karnataka.

Even though Maharashtra has the highest number of cases, Kerala tops charts in terms of cases reported daily.

Maharashtra continues to be the worst-hit state with 18,88,767 cases till date. Over 76 per cent of the daily new cases are being reported by 10 states and union territory and in the random order they include -- Kerala, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat.

(With inputs from ANI.)

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Published: 19 Dec 2020,09:59 AM IST

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