The total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in India rose to 2,902 on Saturday morning, according to data made available by the Health Ministry. This includes 183 cured or discharged and 68 people who succumbed to the respiratory illness.
India reported 355 fresh cases of infection since the last update on Friday evening. Cases more than tripled in the last seven days.
Today is the eleventh day of the 21-day lockdown, slated to end on April 14.
The country reported its 1,000th Covid-19 case on March 29—nearly two months after reporting its first case. The next thousand cases were reported in merely four days.
Globally, coronavirus cases crossed the one million mark while the death toll stood at 58000, according to the latest available data from Johns Hopkins.
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