Coronavirus LIVE: Kerala Registers 23,676 Cases In A Single Day
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Coronavirus LIVE, Wednesday, August 4: Uttar Pradesh created a record on Tuesday by administering over 22 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses in a single day, as per the 7 pm provisional report on Tuesday. UP also reached another milestone by becoming the first state in the country to cross a total of five crore vaccinations.
Expressing happiness over his government’s vaccination coverage, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and people’s support record number of COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered on August 3.
The UP chief minister urged people to get vaccinated against the deadly coronavirus terming the vaccines as 'Suraksha Kavach'.
The Delhi government on Tuesday said 91,100 people have received anti-coronavirus vaccine doses the previous day with 45,126 of them getting the second jab. The total number of vaccine doses administered in Delhi stands at 1,01,98,723, including 74,82,004 first doses and 27,16,719 second jabs, according to the vaccination bulletin.
On Tuesday morning, the national capital had a balance stock of 7,97,550 anti-coronavirus vaccines of which 4,15,990 doses were of Covishield and 3,81,560 of Covaxin.
Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 6,005 fresh coronavirus positive cases and 177 fatalities, taking the tally of infections to 63,21,068 and the toll to 1,33,215 while 6,799 patients recovered, the state health department said.
With the new additions, the tally of recoveries in Maharashtra now stands at 61,10,124, leaving the state with 74,318 active cases with a recovery rate of 96.66 per cent. The case fatality rate is 2.1 per cent, it said.
Mumbai reported 291 new cases and three deaths, which raised the overall case-load to 7,35,657 and the count of fatalities to 15,911, the department said in a statement.
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