Covid-19 Factoid: India's daily tests nearly doubled in a week to 850,000

While Gujarat's Aravalli district has a case fatality rate of 7 per cent, the highest in the country, Karnataka has become the fourth Indian state to have more than 200,000 cases

The global count of confirmed coronavirus cases has now crossed 21 million; about half of these cases are in just three countries – the US, Brazil, and India. More than 6.3 million cases are currently active worldwide, almost 14 million people have made successful recoveries, and 758,120 people across all countries have succumbed to the disease so far.

In India, there now are 2.4 million reported coronavirus cases, of which 661,595 are currently active. The recovery rate in the country has now gone past 71 per cent, with over 1.7 million people having recuperated. India’s death toll stands at 48,040, which