India's COVID-19 Graph Still Moving Upwards, Another Record Daily Spike Seen

New Delhi: India saw a record single-day jump of 29,429 COVID-19 cases, pushing its tally to 9,36,181, on Wednesday, while the death toll climbed to 24,309 with 582 new fatalities, according to Union health ministry data.

This is the fourth consecutive day that COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 28,000.

The number of recoveries stands at 5,92,031, while there are 3,19,840 active cases of coronavirus infection presently in the country, the updated data at 8 am showed.

"Thus, around 63.24% of patients have recovered so far," an official said.

The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners.

State-wise deaths

Of the 582 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 213 are from Maharashtra, 85 from Karnataka, 67 from Tamil Nadu, 43 from Andhra Pradesh, 35 from Delhi, 28 from Uttar Pradesh, 24 from West Bengal, 14 each from Bihar and Gujarat, 10 each from Madhya Pradesh and Telangana.

Punjab has reported nine fatalities followed by Jammu and Kashmir with eight, Assam, Haryana and Odisha four each, Jharkhand three, Chandigarh two while Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Kerala and Uttarakhand have one death each.

According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 1,24,12,664 samples have been tested up to July 14 with 3,20,161 samples being tested on Tuesday.

Of the total 24,309 deaths reported so far, Maharashtra accounted for the highest 10,695 fatalities followed by Delhi with 3,446 deaths, Gujarat 2,069, Tamil Nadu 2,099, Uttar Pradesh 983, West Bengal 980, Karnataka 842, Madhya Pradesh 673 and Rajasthan 525.

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So far 408 people have died of COVID-19 in Andhra Pradesh each, 375 in Telangana, 312 in Haryana, 213 in Punjab, 195 in Jammu and Kashmir, 174 in Bihar, 74 in Odisha, 50 in Uttarakhand, 40 in Assam, 36 in Jharkhand and 34 in Kerala.

Chhattisgarh has registered 20 deaths, Puducherry and Goa 18 each, Himachal Pradesh 11, Chandigarh 10, Arunachal Pradesh three, Meghalaya and Tripura two each and Ladakh and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu together have reported one fatality each.

The health ministry stressed that more than 70% of the deaths occurred due to co-morbidities.

State-wise cases

Maharashtra has reported the highest number of cases at 2,67,665 followed by Tamil Nadu at 1,47,324, Delhi at 1,15,346, Karnataka at 44,077, Gujarat at 43,637, Uttar Pradesh at 39,724 and Telangana at 37,745.

The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 33,019 in Andhra Pradesh, 32,838 in West Bengal, 25,571 in Rajasthan, 22,628 in Haryana, 19,284 in Bihar and 19,005 in Madhya Pradesh.

Assam has instances of 17,807 infections, Odisha 14,280 and Jammu and Kashmir 11,173 cases. Punjab has reported 8,511 novel coronavirus infections so far, while Kerala has 8,930 cases.

A total of 4,379 have been infected by the virus in Chhattisgarh, 4,091 in Jharkhand, 3,686 in Uttarakhand, 2,753 in Goa, 2,170 in Tripura, 1,672 in Manipur, 1,531 in Puducherry, 1,309 in Himachal Pradesh and 1,093 in Ladakh.

Nagaland has recorded 896 COVID-19 cases, Chandigarh 600 and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu together have reported 520 cases.

Arunachal Pradesh reported 462 cases, Meghalaya 318, Mizoram 238, Sikkim has registered 209 infections so far, while Andaman and Nicobar Islands has recorded 166 cases.

Global numbers

Across the world, there have now been more than 13 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. In total, 13,323,530 confirmed cases have been reported as of Wednesday morning.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the global death toll due to COVID-19 stands at 577,980. Another 7,399,310 people have recovered from the disease.

In many countries, official data includes only deaths reported in hospitals, not those in homes or nursing homes.

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The US has recorded 3,431,574 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus. Brazil is in second place with 1,926,824 cases, followed by India (936,181), Russia (738,787) and Peru (333,867).

The US has also recorded the highest death toll, with 136,466 fatalities so far. The death toll has also been high in Brazil (74,133), the UK (45,053), Italy (34,984), Mexico (36,327), France (30,032) and Spain (28,409) and India (24,309).

Reliance, IT stocks lift Indian shares as vaccine hopes boost optimism

Indian shares jumped over 1.5% on Wednesday as upbeat results for IT outsourcer Wipro and signs of new foreign investment inflows countered fears about the surge in domestic coronavirus cases.

India's most valuable stock Reliance Industries rose about 1.3% ahead of an annual general meeting due later in the day after Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that Alphabet Inc's Google was in advanced talks to invest $4 billion in the digital arm of the conglomerate.

"This time, everyone is hooked on to Reliance because of the deals they have been doing on their Jio platforms," said Rusmik Oza, head of fundamental research at Kotak Securities.

Wipro rose as much as 19.4% to its biggest percentage gain in over 11 years and topped the Nifty 50 blue-chip index, after reporting a better-than-expected profit for the three months ended June 30 along with the acquisition of Brazil-based IVIA Servicos De Informatica Ltda.

Larger rival Infosys, which is expected to report first-quarter results Wednesday evening, gained 6.75% after it announced a partnership with U.S.-based investment management firm Vanguard late on Tuesday.

(With agency inputs)

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