New Delhi: India saw a record 4,529 fatalities due to Coronavirus in a single day pushing the COVID-19 death toll to 2,83,248, while 2.67 lakh fresh cases were recorded.
With a total of 2,67,334 fresh infections, India's total tally of cases climbed to 2,54,96,330 out of which 2,19,86,363 patients have recuperated, while the case fatality rate has increased to 1.11 per cent.
The active cases dipped to 32,26,719 comprising 12.66 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 86.23 per cent, the data updated by the health ministry at 8 am on Wednesday showed.
According to the ICMR, 32,03,01,177 samples have been tested up to May 18 with recrd 20,08,296 samples being tested on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, WHO said that India registered a 13 per cent decrease in new COVID-19 cases in the past week but the number of fresh infections was still the highest around the world.
The number of new cases and deaths continued to decrease with just over 4.8 million new cases and just under 86,000 new deaths reported globally in the past week, a 12 per cent and 5 per cent decrease respectively compared to the previous week, according to the COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update Data received by the World Health Organization from national authorities as of May 16.
It said that the highest number of new cases were reported from India (2,387,663 new cases), a 13 per cent decrease over the previous week.
This was followed by Brazil (437,076 new cases; 3 per cent increase), the United States of America (235,638 new cases; 21 per cent decrease), Argentina (151,332 new cases; 8 per cent increase) and Colombia (115,834 new cases; 6 per cent increase).
The highest numbers of new deaths were reported from India (27,922 new deaths; 2.0 new deaths per 100 000; a 4 per cent increase), Nepal (1,224 new deaths; 4.2 new deaths per 100 000; a 266 per cent increase) and Indonesia (1,125 new deaths; 0.4 new deaths per 100,000; a 5 per cent decrease).
According to data received by the WHO from national authorities as of May 9, India had recorded the highest numbers of new cases at 2,738,957, a 5 per cent increase over the previous week. The data added that the South-East Asia Region reported over 2.5 million new cases and over 30,000 new deaths, a 12 per cent decrease and a 7 per cent increase respectively compared to the previous week.
Globally, despite a declining trend over the past three weeks, the incidence of cases remains at some of the highest levels since the start of the pandemic.
All regions reported a decline in new cases this week apart from the Western Pacific Region, where the incidence of new cases was similar to the previous week.
The European Region reported the largest decline in new cases this week, followed by the Eastern Mediterranean.
These regions also reported the largest decline in new deaths over the past week. South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions reported a similar number of new deaths as the previous week, it added.