India crosses 400k mark with record spike of 15,413 Covid-19 cases in a day

Eight days after recording 300,000 Covid-19 cases, India went past the 400,000-mark on Sunday with the biggest single-day spike of 15,413 new infections, while the death toll rose to 13,254 with 306 fatalities, according to the health ministry data.

India took 64 days to cross the 100,000-mark from 100 cases, another fortnight to reach the grim milestone of 200,000 cases and then in another 10 days, it went past the 300,000-mark.

The country has been registering record single-day spikes for the past four days. The jump of 15,413 cases has taken India’s case load to 4,10,461.

The number of recoveries also continued to surge with 227,755 patients cured so far, while there were 169,451 active cases, according to the updated official figures at 8 am. One patient has migrated.

The number of recovered patients has crossed the number of active patients by 58,305. During the last 24 hours, a total of 13,925 Covid-19 patients have recovered, taking the recovery rate to 55.49 per cent amongst novel coronavirus patients.

India registered over 10,000 cases for the 10th day in a row.

Meanwhile, cases in Delhi neared the 60,000-mark on Sunday with 3,500 more people testing positive, even as worried authorities were planning steps to make contact tracing more robust to arrest the spread of the infection in the Capital.

Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia held a virtual meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss strategies to make contact tracing more effective and strengthen medical services in Covid-19 affected areas in the city.