With 38% Rises In 24 Hours, India Adds 12,213 COVID-19 Cases, Highest Since February
India has added 12,213 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the number of confirmed infections in the country to 43,257,730
In the past 24 hours, there was an increase of 38.4 % in infections.
On Tuesday India had reported 8, 822 cases.?
The number of active COVID-19 cases currently stands at 53,637 and accounts for 0.13 per cent of the total infections.
Highest single day rise since February
In the past 24 hours, 7,624 recoveries were also recorded taking the total recoveries till now to 4,26,74,712.
The national recovery rate was 98.65 per cent.
A total of 11 deaths were also recorded in India in the past 24 hours.?
The daily positivity rate has increased to 2.35 per cent while the weekly positivity rate is at 2.38 per cent.?
This is the first time since February 26 that the daily COVID-19 tally has crossed the 10,000 mark.
Maharashtra has the highest number of cases
Among the states, Maharashtra recorded the highest number of new infections in the past 24 hours.
With an increase of 36 per cent from the previous day, Maharashtra on Wednesday added 4,024 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths.
Wednesday's case count was the highest since February 12 when the state had recorded 4,359 cases.?
Mumbai alone accounted for 2,293 cases, a 143-day high for the city.
Four new cases of B.A.5 variant of coronavirus were also detected in the state, the official release said. New B.A.5 cases were reported from Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Pune, and all four patients were in the age group of 19 to 36 years.
Second day of more than 3,000 cases in Kerala
Kerala had the second highest number of infections in the country in the past 24 hours.
The state on Wednesday added 3419 new COVID-19 cases, the second straight day with more than 3,000 infections.
Not in fourth wave yet
Delhi recorded more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday.
The national capital added 1,375 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, with the daily infections breaching the 1,000-mark for the second consecutive day.
In Karnataka, the number of daily COVID-19 cases crossed the 600-mark on Wednesday, after a gap of 112 days.
In the last 24 hours, 648 cases were registered, out of which Bengaluru accounted for 615.
With COVID-19 infections rising across India there are fears that the country is in the fourth wave of the pandemic.
However, ICMR and the Health Ministry have so far maintained that India is not in the fourth wave of COVID-19.
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