India, on Saturday, again reported their biggest single-day spike with fresh
9971 Covid-19 cases, taking the nation’s Coronavirus tally up to 246,628 as per the Union Health Ministry. This spike means that India overtook Spain, which has over 2.41 lakh cases to become the 5^th worst affected Coronavirus country. Now only four nations, namely United States, Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom have more novel Covid-19 virus cases. Globally, the total number of infections rose to about 6.66 million with 393,000 causalities.

India’s case fatality ratio (CFR) remains low:
A total number of deaths in India stand at 6929, almost half of the deaths have occurred in the last fortnight. The Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of India remained low at 2.8 per cent as compared to the global CFR average of 3.8 per cent. Russia’s case-fatality ratio is just 1.2 per cent, Brazil’s is at 5.5% and the US tops the CFR list with 5.7 per cent. Meanwhile, India’s recovery rate witnessed a marginal rise at stands at 48.25 per cent. 119,000 patients have recovered from the deadly virus as the total number of active coronavirus cases stood at 1.2 lakh.

India is facing a huge task to curb the infections after the central government partially opened the country, resuming major sectors on 5^th June and have also given permission to malls and religious places to re-open from 8^th of June as part of their Covid-19 exit strategy under “Unlock 1.0”.