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India has the highest number of Covid cases in the world after the US and Brazil. On Thursday, the number of new cases rose by nearly 84,000, taking the total confirmed cases in the country to 38,53,406. The nation also recorded more than 68,500 recoveries and over 1,000 deaths in the last 24 hours, so, the effective increase is active cases was a little over 14,000.
The country currently has a total of 8,15,538 active cases, a distant second to the US which has over 25.5 lakh active cases.
There is some more good news, according to Union Health Ministry data, only 0.29 per cent of active cases were on ventilator, 1.93 per cent cases in ICU, and 2.88 per cent on oxygen support (as of August 29). This translates to 2,213 cases requiring ventilators, 14,725 cases needing ICU beds, and 21,973 needing oxygen support.
So, do you think the Indian healthcare infrastructure system cope with the surge in Covid-19 cases? BusinessLine's Annapurani V explains.
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