After Nearly 100 Days, The Daily COVID-19 Tally In India Crosses 300
At a time when the public at large has forgotten about COVID-19 and has started living like the pandemic is a thing of the past, there is some worrying news.
India on Saturday logged more than 300 new COVID-19 cases.
Highest single-day tally in 3 months
In the past 24 hours, the country saw a single-day rise of 334 new cases, the first time the number of daily infections has crossed the 300 mark after 97 days.
With this, the number of active cases in India increased to 2,686, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday.
The active cases now comprise 0.00 per cent of the total cases, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 98.80 per cent, according to the health ministry website.
The death toll from COVID also rose to 5,30,775 with three latest fatalities -- two reported by Maharashtra in the last 24 hours and one reconciled by Kerala, the data showed.
Three years of COVID-19
The country's infection tally stands at 4.46 crore (4,46,87,496).
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,54,035, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent.
India reported the first case of COVID-19 in January 2020, on a medical student who had returned to Kerala from Wuhan in China, where the outbreak first surfaced.?
The number of COVID cases in India began exploding in March and the country, like most of the world, went into a lockdown?to prevent the spread.
In the first wave of COVID-19, as per estimates, over 1.5 lakh people lost their lives.
The second wave of COVID-19 in 2021 was the most devastating for India, with April seeing more than 3 lakh new infections being reported in one day.
More than 4 lakh people are estimated to have died in India during the second wave of COVID-19.
The third wave of COVID-19 in India, in 2022, triggered by the Omicron sub-variant, was relatively less deadly for the country, with both hospitalisations and fatalities remaining low.
COVID restrictions lifted in March 2022
After two years of restrictions, India ended all COVID-19-related curbs on March 31, 2022.
While the restrictions were lifted, health experts had warned that India could see occasional spikes in new infections.
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