India witnessed a record single-day spike of 77,266 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, according to the data of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) on Friday. Active cases in Maharashtra have reached 1,78,561, the highest in the country followed by Andhra Pradesh with 94,209. The Union Health Ministry informed that more than three-fourth of cases have recovered in the past 5 months and less than one-fourth are active. "In the past 5 months, more than 3/4 of cases have recovered and less than 1/4 are active now. Effective implementation of the Centre's strategic and graded TEST-TRACK-TREAT approach has led to higher recoveries and lower fatality," MOHFW tweeted.

Source: dna August 28, 2020 01:41 UTC