NEW DELHI, Apr 20: Though India has overtaken Brazil to become the second worst-hit nation in terms of the number of cumulative Coronavirus cases, the country fortunately is still far behind the world topper the United States.
India has been reporting the highest daily caseloads for the past few days and an exponential rise in India’s Covid-19 cases has overwhelmed the country’s health infrastructure, with more than 2,59,000 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours on Tuesday, marginally down from 2.73 lakhs recorded on Monday.
India’s total caseload is more than 15.32 million, second only to the United States which has recorded over 31.73 million Covid-19 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. The Union ministry of health and family welfare on Tuesday announced that India’s total active caseload has crossed the sombre milestone of 20 lakh, which now comprises 13.26% of the country’s total cases – both active and recovered.
Following are some of the competitive figures of the world’s five worst-hit nations in various aspects of the Covid-19 cases:
Total Number of Cumulative Cases:
- US – 31,738,706
- India – 15,320,972
- Brazil – 13,973,695
- France – 5,357,230
- Russia – 4,665,553
Five nations with highest daily caseloads:
- India – 2,59,170
- Turkey – 55,149
- US – 51,650
- Brazil – 34,642
- Iran – 24,346
Five worst-hit nations in terms of total Covid-related deaths:
- US – 567,729
- Brazil – 374,682
- Mexico – 212,466
- India – 180,530
- UK – 127,524
Meanwhile, countries around the world are also ramping up their vaccination drive to flatten the infection curve as quickly as possible and the United States has administered at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine to more than 131 million people, the highest in the world. But Israel boasts of the highest immunisation coverage in terms of percentage of population administered with at least one dose of vaccine.
Five countries with most number of people who received at least one dose of Covid vaccine:
- US – 132.32 million
- India – 109.66 million
- UK – 32.93 million
- Brazil – 24.78 million
- Germany – 16.80 million
While India is second only to the US on cumulative vaccination coverage, it is currently way behind in terms of the percentage of the population vaccinated. According to Our World in Data, India has vaccinated 7.95% of its population against Covid-19. Five countries with the highest percentage of the population vaccinated:
- Israel – 61.82%
- UK – 48.51%
- Chile – 40.46%
- US – 39.24%
- Bahrain – 35.42%
(Manas Dasgupta)