New cases of coronavirus in India increased 32 percent in the last 24 hours; COVID-19 counts at 89.12 lakh.
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With a 32% increase in one day in the number of new coronavirus infections, India recorded 38,617 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, government data shows. India also saw 474 Covid-related deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total deaths to 1,30,993. So far, the country has recorded a total of 89.12 Covid cases since the January outbreak.
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The increase in Covid cases in the national newspaper in the last 24 hours reflects an increase in testing, which finally touched 9.3 lakh after falling to about 8 lakh over the weekend due to the Diwali holidays. It raised the positivity rate to 4.1 percent.
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On Tuesday, the Health Ministry warned that the country had yet to see the effects of laxity in tracking Covid’s safe behavior during the Diwali holidays and recently concluded state elections in Bihar and voting elsewhere. The effects will unfold over the next week to 15 days, said Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan.
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To control the spread of the coronavirus, many states, including Bihar, Maharashtra, Delhi, and Jharkhand, have banned the community celebration of the Chhath festival on November 20.
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Delhi, which is currently recording the highest COVID-19 infections and deaths in one day in India, saw its weekend case count double to 6,396 on Tuesday, as the number of tests increased from 30,000 to 49,031. Testing in the city will increase from 1 lakh to 1.2 lakh, the Health Ministry said.
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Kerala (5,792), West Bengal (3,654), Maharashtra (2,732) and Haryana (2,450), together with Delhi, accounted for 54% of all cases.
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Almost 58 percent of Covid deaths in one day were also reported in the four states with the highest daily infections and in Punjab (30).
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The number of active cases remained below 5 lakh for the eighth consecutive day. There are 4,46,805 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country to date, representing 5.01 percent of the total number of cases, according to the data.
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In the past 24 hours, the number of recoveries remained above new cases, as 44,739 people battled the viral illness. With this, the total number of COVID-19 recoveries from India exceeded 83 lakh.
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The United Nations has said it is releasing $ 100 million in aid for seven countries to prevent famine due to the coronavirus pandemic. Since the December outbreak in Wuhan, China, more than 5.4 million coronavirus cases have so far been recorded worldwide.
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Although researchers are still working on a vaccine, this month there has been upbeat news from US drug makers Pfizer and Moderna, as well as Russia, showing that their experimental vaccines were more than 90% effective according to interim trial data. large in advanced stage.
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