Record death toll in India on Thursday; positive cases less than 1 lakh in 3rd consecutive day

June 11: The death toll due to Covid-19 in India saw a massive jump on Thursday after the Bihar health department revised the toll in the state to more than 9,000. India on Thursday registered a record 6,148 deaths  due to Covid-19. With this, the country’s toll rose to 3,59,676 since the outbreak of the pandemic in January 2020.

So why did the Bihar government suddenly revised the toll in the state? Bihar added 3,951 deaths that were previously not accounted for. It wasn’t clear in what time period these deaths had happened in Bihar, but this is the first time that the state has carried out a data cleaning exercise. So, it is possible that some of the deaths included on Wednesday are from last year as well. The Bihar government said these previously unaccounted deaths were of patients in private hospitals and home isolation and those who died of post-Covid complications.

Meanwhile, India’s total count of cases since the Covid-19 outbreak rose to 2,91,83,121 as it recorded 94,052 new infections in the last day. Thursday was the third consecutive day when India recorded less than 1 lakh cases. The country’s count of active cases stood at 11,67,952. The number of recoveries in the country went up to 2,76,55,493, pushing the recovery rate to 94.77%.