Maharashtra among six states to account for 85.51% of daily new COVID-19 cases

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New Delhi: Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Karnataka proceed to report a surge in day by day new COVID-19 circumstances, accounting for 85.51 % of recent circumstances, the Union well being ministry mentioned on Thursday.

A complete of 17,407 new infections have been registered in a day.

Maharashtra has reported the very best day by day new circumstances at 9,855. That is the very best quantity recorded within the state since 18 October when 10,259 new circumstances had been reported.

It’s adopted by Kerala with 2,765 whereas Punjab reported 772 new circumstances. The overall variety of circumstances with UK, South Africa and Brazil variants of SARS-CoV-2 within the nation as on date has reached 242, the ministry mentioned.

India’s complete COVID-19 energetic caseload has reached 1,73,413 comprising 1.55 % of India’s complete circumstances.

“Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh are exhibiting an increase in energetic circumstances,” the ministry mentioned.

Showcasing the change in energetic circumstances for states and UTs in a span of 24 hours, the ministry mentioned Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam witnessed a discount within the energetic circumstances in 24 hours.

Nonetheless, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat displayed an increase in energetic circumstances throughout the identical time interval, it mentioned.

India’s cumulative recovered circumstances are following a steadily rising trajectory and have surged to1,08,26,075.

Greater than 1.66 crore vaccine doses have been administered through3,23,064 periods,as per the provisional report until Thursday 7 am.

These embody 67,90,808 well being care staff (HCWs 1st dose), 28,72,725 HCWs (2nd dose), 58,03,856 entrance line staff (FLWs 1st dose) and 4,202 FLWs (2nd Dose), 1,43,759 beneficiaries aged greater than 45 years with particular co-morbidities (1st dose) and 10,00,698 beneficiaries aged greater than 60 years.

As on day 47 of the vaccination drive (3 March ), almost 10 lakh vaccine doses got. Of those, 8,31,590 beneficiaries had been vaccinated throughout 10,849 periods for 1st dose (HCWs and FLWs) and 1,62,862 HCWs and FLWs acquired 2nd dose of vaccine.

Apart from, 89 deaths had been reported in a span of 24 hours.

Six states account for 88.76 % of the brand new deaths. Maharashtra noticed the utmost casualties (42). Kerala follows with 15 day by day deaths and Punjab reported 12 deaths within the final 24 hours.

Twenty-three states and UTs haven’t reported any COVID-19 deaths within the final 24 hours. These are Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Puducherry, Assam, Lakshadweep, Nagaland, Sikkim, Ladakh, Tripura, Andaman Nicobar Islands, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Arunachal Pradesh.