India became the third nation in the world to record over 5 lakh deaths from the highly contagious coronavirus. The country reached this grim milestone of death on February 3. With this, only the US (with more than 9.1 lakh Covid fatalities) and Brazil (with almost 6.3 lakh) have reported more deaths from COVID so far. At 3.3 lakh, the death toll from the novel virus in Russia is the fourth highest, just ahead of Mexico in fifth, which has logged more than 3.07 deaths so far.
The death toll in the country currently stands at 5,00,055, with 1,42,859 new deaths on Friday (February 4). Maharashtra has reported the highest number of fatalities in India, followed by Kerala (56701), Karnataka (39,197), Tamil Nadu (37,666), Delhi (25,932) and Uttar Pradesh (23,277).
Meanwhile, the cumulative coronavirus caseload reported across the country went up to 4,19,52,712, including 14,35,569 active COVID cases. Currently, active cases account for nearly 3.42 per cent of the total cases in India.
Source: www.ndtv.com
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