India's daily case count of Covid-19 went past the 3.5 lakh mark on Thursday after a two-day low even as the country recorded more than 4,000 deaths for the second day in a row.

With 3,62,727 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, India's total caseload now stands at 2,37,03,665, as per the Union health ministry data updated at 8:00 am.

Meanwhile, the death count continued to increase with 4,120 deaths in the last 24 hours pushing India's death tally to 2,58,317, as per ministry data.

The active cases have increased to 37,10,525 comprising 15.65 per cent of the total infections. The national Covid-19 recovery rate has improved to 83.26 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,97,34,823 while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.09 per cent, the data stated.

Comparable international data collated by WHO shows that for three consecutive days India has remained the largest contributor of the global caseload of fresh cases.

Since May 10 fresh cases reported from India have remained over 50% of the world's total cases. This means that the combined total of fresh cases reported from the rest of the world is now less than fresh cases reported from India.

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The past three days have also seen over a third of global deaths being reported from India.

The data also shows that at present India is by far the world's worst-affected country in both covid cases as well as deaths.

While fresh cases touched 3.5 lakh in India, Brazil the world's second-worst in daily cases, reported 25,200 new infections. The tally was 22,261 for the USA and a little over 18,000 for France and Iran. Many Indian states are reporting more cases than these countries.

While the daily deaths crossed 4,000 mark for India, the latest 'new deaths' data for any other country has not crossed 1,000 mark.

Source: Times of India 

BDST: 1234 HRS, May 13, 2021
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