India is now the 5th worst hit Covid-19 virus affected country, tally over 2.4 Lakh.

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 5th 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.

ICMR says 1.42 lakh samples were tested on Saturday:

As per the Indian Council of Medical Research, 142,069 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. The tally of the samples tested for Coronavirus in India till date stood at 46,66,386, said the ICMR on Saturday.

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