India's Covid Cases Continue To Surge, Reports 42K Cases In Last 24 Hrs

India's Active caseload is currently at 4,11,076. Active cases constitute 1.29% of total cases. Weekly Positivity Rate remains below 5%, currently at 2.37%

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Covid Update: India reports 42,982 new cases in the last 24 hours. 41,726 patients have recovered from the virus on Wednesday. India's Active caseload is currently at 4,11,076. Active cases constitute 1.29% of total cases. Weekly Positivity Rate remains below 5%, currently at 2.37%

 

Kerala sees 22,414 new Covid cases as lockdown norms eased

As the Kerala government came out with a fresh set of relaxed lockdown norms on Wednesday, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the state registered 22,414 new Covid cases after 1,97,092 samples were sent for testing in the past 24 hours.

On Tuesday, 23,676 people had turned positive.

Vijayan, in a statement, said that there were 1,76,048 active cases after another 19,478 people turned negative.

The day's test positivity rate was 11.37, against Tuesday's 11.87 per cent.

On Wednesday, there were another 108 Covid deaths, taking the death toll to 17,211.

Maharashtra reports over 6K Covid cases

 Maharashtra reported 6,126 new coronavirus positive cases and 195 deaths on Wednesday, while 7,436 patients recovered from the infection during the day, a health official said. With this, the overall COVID-19 tally in the state climbed to 63,27,194 and death toll to 1,33,410, while the recovery count has reached 61,17,560. 

Delhi registers zero Covid facilities

No death due to COVID-19 was recorded in Delhi on Wednesday, while 67 fresh cases of the disease were reported with a positivity rate of 0.09 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. This is the fifth time since the second wave of the pandemic hit the national capital that zero fatality was logged in a day.