COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 50,000.857 patients succumbed to coronavirus infection in past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 39,795.According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 2,14,84,402 samples have been tested till August 4 with 6,19,652 samples being tested on Tuesday.The gap between the recoveries and the active cases has seen a steady rise.
On 10th June 2020, for the first time, the total number of recovered patients exceeded the active cases with a difference of 1,573.