The world’s tally of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases has crossed the 15-million mark, according to private aggregator Worldometers.info.
The death toll was over 630,000.
There were nearly 5.4 million active cases.
About 1 per cent of them remained serious / critical.
The United States (4.1 mln cases), Brazil (2.2 mln) and India remained the most-affected countries.
The three countries were the only ones to have recorded more than 100,000 new cases in the last seven days, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
US President Donald Trump shifted his stance to note that the pandemic was worsening and urged citizens to put on masks June 22, 2020.
India’s tally was over 1.2 million, according to the Union health ministry.
Among them, 426,167 cases were active.
The death toll was at 29,861.
Maharashtra led the tally with 337,607 cases, 137,282 among which were active.
Mumbai, neighbouring Thane and Pune remained the worst affetced, according to private aggregator Covid19indi.org.
Tamil Nadu followed with a tally of 186,492.
Nearly half its cases were in capital Chennai.
Delhi had the third-highest case load at 126,323 — the most for a city.
Its rate of adding new cases has though dipped recently.
Sero surveys will be undertaken in the national capital every month, state health minister Satyendra Jain said June 22.
22.86 per cent of those surveyed earlier (in June and July) were found to be exposed to COVID-19.
