<p>India on Wednesday witnessed the highest single-day jump of 15,968 Covid-19 cases as it raced towards the five-lakh mark with Delhi outpacing Maharashtra in reporting fresh infections.</p>.<p>According to the Health Ministry, India had 4,56,183 total confirmed cases of Covid-19 out of which 2,58,685 had recovered and discharged from hospitals. In percentage terms, the recovery rate was 56.71%, the highest so far.</p>.<p>The fatalities due to the highly infectious disease too witnessed a sharp spike of 465 deaths in a single-day with the total deaths touching 14,476.</p>.<p>According to a DH Covid-19 Tracker, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 had touched 4,71,032 at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday as against the 4,56,183 cases reported on Wednesday morning – an intra-day increase of 14,849 cases.</p>.<p>Delhi has emerged as the new hotspot as it was reporting new infections at a faster pace than Maharashtra.</p>.<p>On Wednesday, the national capital reported 3,947 new cases of the infectious disease as against 3,214 reported by Maharashtra.</p>.<p>A reason for this faster growth could be the increase in testing in the national capital following the intervention by the Centre last week.</p>.<p>India also crossed another significant landmark as the network of state-run and private laboratories the two-lakh-tests per day mark. This network of laboratories had tested 2.15 lakh samples for Covid-19 on Tuesday and a cumulative total of 73.52 lakh samples since the outbreak was first reported in India in January-end.</p>.<p>Of the 2.15 lakh samples tested on Tuesday, 1,71,587 were tested in government laboratories while 43,608 were tested in private facilities.</p>.<p>From a single laboratory in March, the Indian Council of Medical Research had established a network of 1,000 laboratories – 730 state-run and 270 private – for testing samples for Covid-19.</p>
<p>India on Wednesday witnessed the highest single-day jump of 15,968 Covid-19 cases as it raced towards the five-lakh mark with Delhi outpacing Maharashtra in reporting fresh infections.</p>.<p>According to the Health Ministry, India had 4,56,183 total confirmed cases of Covid-19 out of which 2,58,685 had recovered and discharged from hospitals. In percentage terms, the recovery rate was 56.71%, the highest so far.</p>.<p>The fatalities due to the highly infectious disease too witnessed a sharp spike of 465 deaths in a single-day with the total deaths touching 14,476.</p>.<p>According to a DH Covid-19 Tracker, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 had touched 4,71,032 at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday as against the 4,56,183 cases reported on Wednesday morning – an intra-day increase of 14,849 cases.</p>.<p>Delhi has emerged as the new hotspot as it was reporting new infections at a faster pace than Maharashtra.</p>.<p>On Wednesday, the national capital reported 3,947 new cases of the infectious disease as against 3,214 reported by Maharashtra.</p>.<p>A reason for this faster growth could be the increase in testing in the national capital following the intervention by the Centre last week.</p>.<p>India also crossed another significant landmark as the network of state-run and private laboratories the two-lakh-tests per day mark. This network of laboratories had tested 2.15 lakh samples for Covid-19 on Tuesday and a cumulative total of 73.52 lakh samples since the outbreak was first reported in India in January-end.</p>.<p>Of the 2.15 lakh samples tested on Tuesday, 1,71,587 were tested in government laboratories while 43,608 were tested in private facilities.</p>.<p>From a single laboratory in March, the Indian Council of Medical Research had established a network of 1,000 laboratories – 730 state-run and 270 private – for testing samples for Covid-19.</p>
