India's Covid count goes past 1,50,000

Maharashtra, the hardest-hit state, has reported 54,758 cases and 1,792 deaths so far. Data shows that after a surge in cases, Mumbai was among world’s four cities — the other three being Moscow, Sao Paulo and New York — with the highest number of cases in the past five days.

The total number of coronavirus infections in India rose to 1,51,767 in the past 24 hours, according to Union Health ministry's latest update.

Fatalities were at 4,337 as of 8 am this morning. The number of the cured/discharged stands at 64,426 as of now, the website of Health ministry showed.

Maharashtra, the hardest-hit state, has reported 54,758 cases and 1,792 deaths so far.

Data shows that after a surge in cases, Mumbai was among world’s four cities — the other three being Moscow, Sao Paulo and New York — with the highest number of cases in the past five days.

Meanwhile, the govt has claimed that successive lockdowns since March have caused a drastic improvement in the country's Covid-19 recovery rate and also brought down the mortality rate.

In a presentation, the Health ministry said yesterday that the recovery rate "went up to 41.61% on May 26, in the fourth stage of the lockdown, from 7.1% on March 25, when the lockdown started, and 11.42% on April 15 when the second lockdown was imposed." The fatality rate had "gone down to 2.87% now from 3.3% on April 15," it added.

Globally, the total case count so far was 55,84,091 as of morning hours today. Almost 3.5 lakh people have died worldwide so far.