Coronavirus Live: Maharashtra Becomes First State To Cross 3.5 Crore Vaccinations
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Coronavirus LIVE, Thursday, July 7: Maintaining its upward trend, with 3,081 patients discharged, recoveries outnumbered 2,743 new Covid cases in Karnataka, while 75 died of infection, said the state health bulletin on Wednesday.
"Recoveries rose to 27,87,111, with 3,081 patients discharged during the day, while 2,743 positive cases were registered on Tuesday, taking the state's Covid tally to 28,62,338, including 39,603 active cases," said the bulletin.
As epi-centre of the pandemic in the state, Bengaluru reported 611fresh cases on Tuesday, taking its Covid tally to 12,17,507, including 14,138 active cases, while recoveries rose to 11,87,666, with 693 patients discharged in the day.
Among districts, 304 new cases were reported in Dakshina Kannada, 248 in Mysuru and 220 in Hassan across the state.
Out of 1,66,631 tests conducted across the state during the day, 33,510 were through rapid antigen detection and 1,33,121 through RT-PCR method.
Recoveries continued to stay ahead of new cases in J&K on Wednesday as 419 patients recovered while 280 new cases and 4 deaths were reported in last 24 hours.
Officials said that 197 recoveries, 131 cases, and three deaths were reported from the Jammu division and 222 recoveries, 149 cases, and one death from the Kashmir division.
So far, 317,761 people have been infected with coronavirus in J&K out of which 309,973 have recovered, and 4,349 have succumbed.
There are 3,439 active cases in J&K out of which 1,509 are from the Jammu division and 1,930 are from the Kashmir division.
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Maharashtra Becomes First State to Cross 3.5 Crore Vaccinations
"Maharashtra becomes first State to cross 3.5 Crore vaccine doses milestone. Till yesterday Maharashtra administered the highest number of covid vaccine doses in the country at 3.54 Crore doses," Dr Pradeep Vyas, ACS Health.
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