India Registers Spike In Coronavirus Cases, Clocks 43,263 Infections In Last 24 Hrs

India again registers over 40,000 cases in the last 24 hours. The country's recovery rate is currently at 97.48%. 40,567 patients recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours.

Corona Update: After witnessing a decline in Covid cases for the past 2 days, India has again recorded 43,263 new Coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. The active cases account for 1.19% of total cases.

The country's recovery rate is currently at 97.48%. 40,567 patients recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours.

The country witnessed 338 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry.

Total cases: 3,31,39,981

Active cases: 3,93,614

Total recoveries: 3,23,04,618

Death toll: 4,41,749

Total vaccinations: 71,65,97,428 (86,51,701 in last 24 hrs)

Kerala

After recording less than 30,000 cases since last Friday, Kerala on Wednesday reported 30,196 afresh, pushing the total infections in the state to 42,83,494.

The southern state also reported 181 deaths, which took the total fatalities till now to 22,001, a government release said.

The Test Positivity Rate (TPR), which was witnessing a gradual decline and had dipped below 16 per cent, rose to 17.63 per cent on Wednesday after testing 1,71,295 samples in the last 24 hours.
With this, 3,28,41,859 samples have been tested till now, the release said.

The bulletin also said that since Tuesday, 27,579 people recovered from the infection taking the total number to 40,21,456 and the number of active cases to 2,39,480.

Maharashtra

Maharashtra reported 4,174 new coronavirus cases and 65 fresh fatalities on Wednesday, taking the tally of infections to 64,97,872 and the toll to 1,37,962, a health department official said.

With 4,155 patients getting discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, the number of recoveries climbed to 63,08,491, leaving the state with 47,880 active cases, he said.

On Tuesday, Maharashtra had reported 3,898 new coronavirus infections and 86 fatalities.

There are currently 3,07,913 people in home isolation in the state and another 1,937 in institutional quarantine, the official said.

Maharashtra's coronavirus recovery rate stands at 97.09 per cent, while the fatality rate is 2.12 per cent.

The number of coronavirus tests conducted in the state rose to 5,53,38,772, of which 1,79,408 samples were examined in the past 24 hours. On Tuesday, 1,59,889 swab samples were tested in Maharashtra.

(with PTI inputs)