India has recorded 32,695 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours — its biggest single-day spike yet — to take its total number of coronavirus cases to 970,596. With over 600 deaths on 15th July 2020, the country's Covid-19 the death toll has now reached 24,929. India, the third-most-affected country by total cases and eighth by death toll, has added 201,580 cases — 21% of its total tally — in the past 7 days alone. Worldometer recorded an increase of over 230,000 coronaviruses.
The recovery rate in West Bengal has gone downhill since the
last two weeks, while the rate of infection has been
increasing — and all these when the city is facing an acute
shortage of beds in both government and private hospitals.
In the last two weeks, from 30 June to 14 July, Bengal’s
discharge/recovery rate has fallen from 66.48 percent to 60
percent. In Kolkata, it has nosedived from 64 percent to 56
percent, according to state government data.
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