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Four months after the pandemic hit India, we have crossed the 1 million-cases mark, becoming the third country in the world to cross this level after the United States and Brazil.

On Friday, July 17, India recorded 34,956 new coronavirus cases, the highest single-day rise it has witnessed so far.

The India Today Data Intelligence Unit compares India’s position at a million cases with the US and Brazil when they had reached their first million cases based on the growth rate of cases, daily addition of cases, and deaths. Here is how India fares.

Growth rate of cases at 1 million

As of Friday, India’s weekly growth rate of coronavirus cases stands at 3.4 per cent. This is higher than the growth rate of Brazil and the US when they had reached their first million cases. This means that cases are doubling every 21 days in the country.

Brazil crossed a million cases on 20 June. The weekly growth rate in the country on that day was 3.3 per cent, which means that cases were doubling every 22 days. Since then, Covid-19 cases have doubled in Brazil, and on Friday, it crossed the 2-million mark.

The United States had a weekly growth rate of 3.1 per cent on 29 April, the day it reached its first million cases. Cases were doubling every 23 days then. Currently, more than 3.5 million people have been infected in the US by coronavirus.

Daily coronavirus cases

At 1 million cases, India’s daily addition of cases are alarming. For the past two days, India has recorded more than 30,000 cases. On 17 July, it recorded close to 35,000 new coronavirus cases, which brings its weekly rolling average to a little more than 30,000 now.

India’s tally of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus exceeded 10 lakh on Thursday with Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh among other states reporting spikes in the number of new cases.

As per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s COVID bulletin on the morning of July 16, India had 9,68,876 confirmed cases. This figure was inclusive of 3,31,146 active cases and 6,12,815 recoveries along with 24,915 casualties. Maharashtra leads with the most number of confirmed cases followed by Tamil Nadu and Delhi.

Data indicates that the Health Departments of various state governments collectively recorded more than a lakh new cases in the last four days, pushing India’s tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases beyond the 10-lakh mark.

Maharashtra reported 8641 new cases on Thursday. With this development, the state now has 2,84,281 confirmed cases. Mumbai accounts for 23,694 cases on July 16.

The state with the second-highest number of confirmed cases in India, Tamil Nadu reported a spike of 4549 in its tally of confirmed cases. Now, there are 46,714 active cases in the state.

Uttar Pradesh government’s Health Department also informed reporters that it detected 2061 new cases across the state in the last 24 hours. The state’s tally of confirmed cases now stands at 43,444. This figure is inclusive of 15,723 active cases to date.

Similarly, the state of Andhra Pradesh reported 2593 new cases, West Bengal 1690 fresh cases and Delhi another 1652 cases on Thursday. Gujarat accounted for 919 fresh cases, Bihar another 1385 cases, and Jammu and Kashmir 493 new cases. Telangana also reported 1676 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 on July 16.

Karnataka also accounted for a massive spike in new cases with 4169 new cases.

India saw a record single-day jump of 32,695 COVID-19 cases pushing its tally to 9,68,876 on Thursday, while the death toll climbed to 24,915 with 606 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

This is the first day that COVID-19 cases in India have increased by more than 30,000.

The number of recoveries stands at 6,12,815, while there are 3,31,146 active cases of coronavirus infection presently in the country, the updated data at 8 am showed.

“Thus, around 63.24 per cent of patients have recovered so far,” an official said.

The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners.