New Delhi : August 5, 2020 India has crossed the 40,000 mark in Covid 19 casualties and was reporting higher deaths than the worst hit US and Brazil, total confirmed cases of the infectious disease were upto 20 lakh mark.
51,706 persons were cured and discharged from hospital on Tuesday, the highest single day recoveries so far. Recoveries till now has reached to 12, 82,215. Difference between recovered patients and active cases has been reached to nearly 7 lakh.
Active cases have reduced to 5, 86,244 on Tuesday. Health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said there was no need to be overawed by the increasing numbers as long as patients were identified in time, and were isolated and treated.
Health ministry statement said that India had tested more than six lakh samples for consecutive day .total number of samples tested to 2.14 crore. 19,24,649 confirmed cases, while recoveries had raised 12, 95,661 and deaths had raised to 40,057.