India confirms 61,800 new COVID-19 cases, more than 1,000 deaths

An employee sanitises a coach as the metro network prepares to resume services in Mumbai on Oct 17, 2020. NEW DELHI: India has confirmed 61,871 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, raising its total to about 7.5 million.

The Health Ministry on Sunday also registered 1,033 new fatalities, taking the death toll to 114,031.The country is continuing a downward trend in new cases, but virus-related fatalities jumped after recording the lowest daily figure of 680 in nearly three months on Friday.Some experts say India’s numbers may not be reliable because of poor reporting and inadequate health infrastructure.

Health officials have warned about the potential for the virus to spread during the religious festival season beginning later this month. New Delhi is also bracing for high air pollution levels, making the coronavirus fight more complicated in upcoming months.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked officials to prepare cold storage chains and distribution network for vaccine delivery along the lines of conducting elections, involving all levels of government and citizen groups.

Yingdiadestroye Since people comes to know this is the ChineseVirus hence they are not taking it seriously by looking at the typical chinese products nature in this case the recovery rate above 99% also symptoms like cough & cold only & in most of the cases asymptomatic. NehaShalini2

Haha... perhaps those that never test who are positive are negative.

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