India reports 945 fresh COVID-19 deaths

 News Desk

With 69,878 fresh COVID-19 cases, maximum in a day, and 945 deaths, the total number of coronavirus infections in the country went up to 2,976,131 and the death toll reached 55794 in India on Saturday.

Maharastra, 6,57,450 cases, Uttar Pradesh 1,77,239, Andhra Pradesh 3,34,940, Tamil Nadu 3,67,430, are leading in the country.

At present the number of active cases is 697330 while 2222578 people have been treated and discharged from health facilities. The recovery rate has soared past 74.69% and the case fatality rate has also dropped further to 1.88% from the earlier 1.91%. the case positivity rate is 6.82%.

The Union Health Ministry said also, a cumulative total of 34491073 samples have been tested up to August 21 with 1023836 samples being tested on Friday, the highest done in a day so far.

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With the daily growth rate continuing to slow down, the doubling time of novel Coronavirus cases in India has now dropped to 30 days. Because of the different growth rates, the doubling times in states vary widely.

Globally, 22,949,234 people have been infected with the virus so far, including over 7.9 lakh who died. The United States continued to be worst affected followed by Brazil and India. China, has announced that people living in Beijing are no longer required to wear masks outdoors.