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Number coronavirus cases across the globe has surpassed 30 million mark. India has already reported 5214678 cases and 84372 deaths.
According to America’s Johns Hopkins University more than 940,000 have died with Covid-19 since the outbreak began. The worst hit nations are the US, India and Brazil, but there is a renewed spike in infections across Europe being observed now.
India has already reported 5214678 cases and 84372 deaths. On Friday 96424 fresh cases were reported along with 1174 new deaths. India’s union health ministry said that 60% of India’s case active coronavirus cases are concentrated across five worst-hit states — Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh — while 13 states and Union Territories have less than 5,000 active cases.
Many northern hemisphere countries are now bracing for a second wave of the pandemic as winter approaches.
In the UK, the government is considering taking further England-wide measures including a short period of restrictions to try to slow a second surge of infections. Outside Europe, Israel brings in a second nationwide lockdown later on Friday – the first developed nation to do so.
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Africa has recorded more than a million confirmed cases, although the true extent of the pandemic in the continent is not known. Testing rates are reported to be low, which could distort official figures.
US remains by far the worst hit in terms of numbers, with more than 6.6 million confirmed infections, and over 197,000 deaths. The number of new daily infections has been dropping, though, compared with the peak figures seen in July.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump denied downplaying the seriousness of Covid-19, despite admitting in a recorded interview to having done that. In India, the number of known infections climbed above five million this week – the second-highest caseload in the world.
