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This week, new daily infections were the lowest in eight months, while deaths fell below 100 — the smallest single-day total since May.
More than 22,500 test results were conducted in the past 24 hours in Australia’s second most populous city Melbourne and authorities urged residents to get tested amid fears of community transmission from a worker at the Holiday Inn in the city.
With 103,558 new infections, India has now reported 12.6 million cases, the highest after the United States and Brazil, data from the health ministry showed. India has recorded the most number of infections in the past week anywhere in the world.
The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced 971 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of recorded cases in the UAE to 723,263.
Daily cases have been falling steadily in India since a peak in September, in spite of a busy festival season last month. India has recorded the world’s second-highest number of infections, after the United States.
The capital recorded 944 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, just under the record 949 recorded on Saturday, and medical experts warned that unless the outbreak is checked the city could soon see over 1,000 new patients a day.
All six patients have been kept in isolation, the health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that their fellow travellers were being tracked down.
India’s daily rate has fallen since the south Asian nation reported the world’s highest such tallies through most of August and September, despite a busy festival season last month that experts had warned could trigger a spike in infections.
The epidemic has infected nearly 1% of India’s more than 1.3 billion people, second to the worst-hit United States. After hitting a peak in September, daily cases are now down to an average of 27,000.
The total coronavirus cases mounted to 96,77,203, while the death toll rose to 1,40,573 with 391 new fatalities, the data updated at 8am showed.