India has recorded 1,13,59,048 coronavirus cases since the outbreak nearly a year ago
New Delhi:
India reported 25,320 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest daily increase in nearly three months, bringing the total count to more than 1.13 million cases, data from the Health Ministry showed this morning. The death count rose to 1.58,607 today with 161 new deaths, the highest in 44 days, the updated data showed at 8 a.m., the PTI news agency reported.
The number of new infections is nearly 1.7 percent higher than Saturday, when the country recorded 24,882 cases. Overall, India has now recorded 1,13,59,048 cases since the outbreak nearly a year ago, according to government data.
On Saturday, 140 virus-related deaths were reported in a 24-hour period bringing the total number of deaths to 1,58,446.
The number of active cases in the country has reached 2,10,544, which constitutes 1.8% of all infections. The recovery rate dropped to 96.7 percent.
The number of infections reported today is the highest daily increase since December 20, when as many as 26,624 new infections were recorded.
Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka and Gujarat are the five states that have registered the highest number of cases in the last 24 hours.
The situation in Maharashtra, which has consistently reported the highest number of cases in the country over the past year, has been under scrutiny for some time with several districts imposing partial closures and night curfews.
The state registered more than 15,000 new cases on Saturday, for two consecutive days.
India has witnessed a worrying increase in the rate of Covid-19 infection despite an intensive and accelerated inoculation campaign through which nearly three million doses of vaccine have been administered to beneficiaries so far.
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