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India records over 6,500 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hrs, death toll at 4,167

Confirmed cases surge past 145,000; fatality rate down from 3.3% to 2.87%

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New Delhi: A police constable stops commuters to cross Delhi-Ghaziabad border after it was sealed by the authorities due to a sudden surge in coronavirus cases in the national capital, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in New Delhi.

Ruchika Chitravanshi New Delhi

4 min read Last Updated : May 27 2020 | 3:01 AM IST

India recorded an increase of more than 6,500 cases and 146 deaths in a single day, taking the total tally of confirmed cases to more than 145,000 and 4,167 deaths as of Tuesday morning, even as the fatality rate improved to 2.87 per cent, revealed the health ministry data.

With Covid-19 cases continuing to increase rapidly, there have been questions around whether India was in the community transmission stage.

Balram Bhargava, director general, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), however, maintained, “We have clear-cut containment areas, which are being tackled and studied. Seroprevalence (the level of a pathogen in a

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