COVID-19 Daily Updates

India conducts over one million COVID-19 tests in single day

August 23, 2020, 2:42 PM

Gursshheen Gahllen | Delhi

The Union Ministry on Saturday informed that India has now completed the target of conducting one million COVID-19 tests in one single day.

India crosses the milestone of 1 million COVID-19 tests a day. More than 10 lakh people tested in the last 24 hours, the Ministry tweeted.

The ministry also added that the country recorded a 100 percent increase in recovery rate in the last 21 days because of early diagnosis of the virus through testing.

As per the graph shared by the Union Ministry – 10,94,374 patients recovered on August 1, while the number of recoveries stood at 21,58,946 on August 21.

?Early identification through testing, prompt and effective treatment through supervised home isolation, quality medical care and innovative graded policy measures have resulted in almost 100 percent increase in recovered cases in the last 21 days, it added.

Until Friday, the recovery rate in the country stood at 74.28 %. With more than 1,500 labs conducting tests across the country, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is gradually pushing forward to further increase testing to contain the spread of the deadly virus.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.