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DATA STORY: India toll nears 60K-mark with more than 1,000 deaths in a day

India's doubling time for total cases stands at 33.0 days, for active cases at 167.6 days, and for deaths at 47.4 days

A health worker in PPE collects a swab sample from a child at a local health centre to conduct tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), amid the spread of the disease, in New Delhi.
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A health worker in PPE collects a swab sample from a child at a local health centre to conduct tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), amid the spread of the disease, in New Delhi.

BS Web Team New Delhi
India on Wednesday reported 1,059 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours, taking its tally to 59,449. This was the biggest single-day figure for fatalities since the all-time high of 1,092 on August 19. The count of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country rose by 67,151 to 3,234,474, up 2.1 per cent over the previous day.
 
Now the third-most-affected country by total cases and fourth by death toll, India has added 467,201 cases in the past 7 days alone. Here are the key takeaways from the coronavirus data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Wednesday