New Delhi: India has registered a decline in Coronavirus cases as compared to the infections reported yesterday. The country has registered 6,561 new cases in the last 24 hours.
According to the data released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 142 people succumbed to the virus on Wednesday while the country registered 14,947 recoveries.
India's active caseload now stands at 77,152. The addition of new infections has pushed India's Covid case tally to 4,29,45,160 while the death toll has reached to 5,14,388.
Maharashtra
Maharashtra on Wednesday reported 544 new COVID-19 cases, including 38 caused by the Omicron variant, taking the overall tally of infections to 78,66,924, while the death toll remained unchanged at 1,43,706, according to the state health department.
For the first time since April 2020, Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded no new death due to the coronavirus infection. "It is for the first time since April 1, 2020, that the state has recorded zero fatalities," said Dr Pradeep Awate, the state surveillance officer who is in charge of monitoring epidemic-prone diseases.
37 Omicron cases were reported from Pune and one from Aurangabad, which increased the count of infections due to the new variant to 4,771, of which 4,629 have already been discharged.
As many as 1,007 people were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the recovery count to 77,13,575, leaving the state with 5,643 active cases.