NEW DELHI, Sept 16 (NNN-UNI) – India’s COVID-19 tally surpassed the five million mark today, reaching 5,020,359, said the latest data released by the federal health ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As many as 90,123 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the past 24 hours, revealed the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The country’s death toll due to the pandemic reached 82,066, as 1,290 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours from across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still there are 995,933 active COVID-19 cases in the country, while 3,942,360 people have been successfully cured and discharged from hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 59,429,115 samples were tested till Tuesday, out of which 1,116,842 samples were tested on Tuesday alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India emerged as the worst-hit country globally, in terms of new COVID-19 cases discovered every day. Over the past one week the average number of daily infections has been over 90,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This average was around 24,000 two months ago, and 58,000 a month ago. India’s new cases detected per day are more than double the daily average of the United States and Brazil, the other two worst affected countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian Parliament began its monsoon session on Monday, with strict arrangements in place for maintaining social distancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a first in the history of the Indian Parliament, seating arrangements for lawmakers have been made in such a manner that the lawmakers belonging to one house will sit in the other house too while being connected through live video-conferencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sound system of both the houses have also been integrated to enable the lawmakers to participate in the parliamentary proceedings at a real time basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Timings of sittings of both the Houses Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, have been changed and media persons’ entry restricted too.– NNN-UNI <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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