The Health Ministry said that apart from the six who tested positive on Tuesday, these cases were reported in Delhi and Bengaluru.
A total of 20 people (14 on Wednesday) were found with the mutant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus reported from the UK, the Health Ministry confirmed on Wednesday.
These include the six people previously reported (three in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, two in CCMB, Hyderabad and one in NIV, Pune). In total, 107 samples were analyzed in 10 laboratories.
“The central government has formed INSACOG (Indian Consortium for SARS-CoV-2 Genomics) comprising 10 laboratories (NIBMG Kolkata, ILS Bhubaneswar, NIV Pune, CCS Pune, CCMB Hyderabad, CDFD Hyderabad, InSTEM Bengaluru, NIMHANS Bengaluru, IGIB Delhi , NCDC Delhi) for genome sequencing. The situation is under careful surveillance and regular advice is being provided to the States to improve the surveillance, containment, analysis, and shipment of samples to INSACOG laboratories, ”said the Ministry of Health.
High recovery rate
Releasing the daily COVID-19 update, the Ministry said that daily recoveries had outnumbered new daily cases from the last 33 days successively. In the last 24 hours, 20,549 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the country. During the same period, 26,572 new recoveries were reported, registering a drop in the number of active cases.
According to data published by the Ministry, the country’s cumulative recoveries stand at 98,34,141, the highest worldwide. The recovery rate has also reached almost 96% (95.99%) and the gap between recoveries and active cases is constantly widening (95,71,869).
Of the new recovered cases, it is observed that 78.44% are concentrated in 10 states / territories of the Union and Maharashtra reports the maximum number of recoveries in a single day with 5,572 newly recovered cases. 5,029 people recovered in Kerala, followed by 1,607 in Chhattisgarh. This when 79.24% of the new cases are from 10 states and UT.
Kerala had the highest number of daily new cases with 5,887, followed by Maharashtra with 3,018 and West Bengal with 1,244.
India also reported 286 cases of death in the last 24 hours. “Ten states / UT represent 79.37% of the new deaths where Maharashtra saw the maximum number of victims (68), followed by West Bengal and Delhi with 30 and 28 daily deaths, respectively,” said the Ministry.
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