The number of infections has gone of up by whopping 7% compared to Friday, when the country registered 23,285 cases.
According to the Health Ministry data this morning, India reported 24,882 fresh COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours – the highest daily rise in the last 83 days – taking its tally to 1.13 crore cases. The number of infections has gone of up by whopping 7% compared to Friday, when the country registered 23,285 cases. According to the government data updated today, India has now recorded 1,13,33,728 cases since the outbreak a year ago.
India, in the 24-hour period, reported 140 deaths linked to the virus taking the total number of fatalities to 1,58,446.
Constituting 1.74 per cent of the total infections, the country’s active caseload has reached 2,02,022. The recovery rate has come down to 96.82 per cent.
Since December 20 when as many as 26,624 new infections were recorded, the number of infections reported today is the highest daily rise.
The government on Friday said Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu account for 85.6 per cent of the new cases. “Five states cumulatively account for 82.96 per cent of the total active cases in the country. Two states – Maharashtra and Kerala- account for 71.69 per cent of India’s total active cases,” the Health Ministry said.
As the western state has consistently been reporting the highest cases in the country over the past year, the situation in Maharashtra has been under scrutiny for a while with several districts imposing partial lockdowns or night curfews.
On Friday, Maharashtra reported 15,817 fresh cases, its highest single-day tally this year.
Amid an intensive and accelerating inoculation drive through which more than 2.80 crore (2,80,05,817 ) vaccine doses have been administered to the benficiaries so far, India has been witnessing the worrying spike in the rate of Covid-19 infection, with fear of another lockdown looming in many areas in the country.
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