India Witnesses Huge Spike In Covid Deaths; 3998 Fatalities, Over 42K Cases Recorded In Last 24 Hrs

Recovery Rate is currently at 97.36% after 36,977 patients recovered during the last 24 hours.

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Corona Update: After witnessing a dip in Covid deaths for the last few weeks India has recorded a massive spike in Covid fatalities in the last 24 hours. The country recorded  3998 deaths on Wednesday.

 India has reported 42,015 new Coronavirus cases in last the 24 hours. India's active caseload is currently at 4,07,170. Active cases constitute 1.30% of total cases. Weekly Positivity Rate remains below 5%, currently at 2.09%. Daily positivity rate at 2.27%, less than 3% for 30 consecutive days.

Recovery Rate is currently at 97.36% after 36,977 patients recovered during the last 24 hours.

India has witnessed a spike in cases as the country recorded over 30,000 new Coronavirus cases on Tuesday.

Total cases: 3,12,16,337

Active cases: 4,07,170

Total recoveries: 3,03,90,687

Death toll: 4,18,480

Total vaccination: 41,54,72,455

Kerala Covid Cases On 45-Day High

Kerala today registered 16,848 new cases of coronavirus, pushing the infection caseload to 31,87,716, with the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) climbing close to 12% after remaining around the 10% mark for several weeks.

The number of people who have succumbed to the killer virus rose to 15,512 with 104 more deaths, a state government release said.

As many as 12,052 people have been cured of the infection, taking the total recoveries to 30,45,310 and the number of active cases to 1,26,398, the release added.

Malappuram accounted for the most number of cases (2752), followed by Thrissur (1929), Ernakulam (1901), Kozhikode (1689), Kollam (1556), Palakkad (1237), Kottayam (1101) and Thiruvananthapuram (1055).

Maharashtra Witnesses Declining Trend

Maharashtra’s declining case trend continued on Tuesday with the State reporting 7,510 recoveries as against 6,910 new COVID-19 cases causing the active case tally to fall to 94,593.

The reconciliation process (completed till July 12) has resulted in a massive updation of cases and fatalities, adding 3,509 more deaths and 2,479 cases to the State’s cumulative tally, said the State Health Department medical bulletin.

This fresh addition, along with 147 deaths in the last week, has pushed the State’s cumulative fatalities to 1,30,753 with the case fatality rate climbing to 2.09%.

The total cases have reached 62,29,596 while its cumulative recoveries have risen to 60,00,911 with the recovery rate standing at 96.33%.