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Photos: Nearly 25,000 new Covid-19 cases take India’s tally past 7.6 lakh
Updated On Jul 09, 2020 03:09 pm IST
India’s Covid-19 case count stands at 7.69 lakh as of July 9, after a record surge of 24,879 cases recorded in the last 24 hours. Over 21,000 lives have also been lost to the disease since it entered the country. Against this backdrop, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardshan announced at a review of the national Covid-19 situation by a high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) that despite the second highest population on the planet, the country’s cases per million stand at 538. The global average is 1,453.
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Medics look on as people admitted to a Covid-19 care centre play a game of chess in New Delhi on July 8. India recorded 24,879 cases of the coronavirus disease Covid-19 on July 8. The current national tally of infections stands at 767,296 according to Union health ministry update at 8 am on July 9. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT PHOTO)
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Police personnel lead health workers towards a containment zone to carry out medical checks in Mumbai on July 8. At 223,724 cases according to latest available figures, Maharastra continues to be the worst hit state in the country, accounting for over a quarter of all cases. Tamil Nadu and Delhi occupy the second and third spots respectively. (Satyabrata Tripathy / HT PHOTO)
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A man crosses barricades at a containment zone in Kolkata on July 8. While the country progresses with Unlock 2.0, several states have been implementing localised containment strategies in the fight against the virus. West Bengal is the latest state in this order, deciding to put its containment zones under strict surveillance for a week starting July 9. (Samir Jana / HT Photo)
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Men wearing face masks interact with each other on a rainy afternoon in New Delhi on July 7. The total number of active cases in the country stand at 2,69,789, according to the Union health ministry update on July 9. Over 4.7 lakh patients have been cured or discharged so far. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)
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A health worker takes a sample for Covid-19 antigen testing in Gurugram on July 8. Testing figures for Covid-19 crossed the 1 crore mark earlier this week as a result of continuous expansion of testing network. ICMR data shows that 267,061 tests conducted on July 8 have taken the cumulative figure to 10,740,832. (Parveen Kumar / HT Photo)
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Staff in a hotel sanitize a room at in Pune on July 7. Under new orders by the Maharashtra government, hotels and entities providing accommodation services like lodges and guest houses outside containment zones began operating from July 8 at 33% capacity. The remainder will still be available for the government to use for quarantine and other purposes as mandated earlier. (Pratham Gokhale / HT Photo)
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Visitors at Pari Mahal, in Srinagar on July 8 as gardens and parks reopened with special guidelines in the Union Territory. Union Minister Harsh Vardhan on July 9 in a Group of Ministers (GoM) review meeting that India has the 2nd highest population in the planet and its cases per million is 538. The global average is 1,453. (Waseem Andrabi / HT Photo)
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