Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu together account for 85.91% of new cases of coronavirus disease reported in the last 24 hours in India, according to data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Union on Thursday. since the country registered 22,854 new infections.
Maharashtra, which accounts for nearly 60 percent of reported Covid-19 cases in the country, recorded the highest number of infections with 13,659, followed by Kerala with 2,475 and Punjab with 1,393, the Health Ministry said. The ministry also said that Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka and Haryana continue to report an increase in the number of new cases.
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Maharashtra, India’s hardest hit state, also recorded the highest casualties with 54, followed by Punjab with 17 and Kerala with 14 in the past 24 hours, the ministry’s data showed. Six Indian states account for 82.54% of new deaths in the country, he added. 126 deaths were reported in the country in the 24-hour period.
At least 19 states and territories in the Union have reported no deaths due to the viral disease. These regions include Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Odisha, Goa, Jharkhand, Puducherry, Lakshadweep, Sikkim, Ladakh, Manipur, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands . and Arunachal Pradesh.
Showing the change in the number of active cases for the states in the 24-hour period, the Health Ministry said that Kerala reported the maximum decrease in the figure, while Maharashtra recorded the maximum increase. India has 189,226 active Covid-19 cases, representing 1.68% of its total case burden, according to the Ministry of Health.
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So far more than 25.6 million doses of vaccines have been administered in the country through 478,168 sessions, according to an interim report compiled Thursday at 7 a.m., the ministry said. The data also shows that 13,17,357 doses of vaccine were administered with 10,30,243 people who received the first dose and 287,114 healthcare and front-line workers received the second dose on Wednesday, the 54th day of the ongoing vaccination campaign. of the government.
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