India Adds 17,336 New COVID-19 Cases In Past 24 Hours, The Highest In 4 Months
The number of daily COVID-19 infections being reported in India continues to rise and in the past 24 hours and added 17,336 new infections in the past 24 hours.
With a 30 per cent jump in daily cases as of Friday morning the total number of confirmed infection in India have risen to 4,33,62,294.
This is the highest number of new cases being reported in India in nearly four months.
The count of active cases has increased to 88,284, comprising 0.20 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.59 per cent.
13 deaths reported in past 24 hours
An increase of 4,294 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 4.32 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 3.07 per cent.
Thirteen new fatalities due to the disease were reported in the country ¨C seven from Kerala, two from Punjab, and one each from Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
With this, the total number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in India has climbed to 5,24,954.
Maharashtra reports over 5,000 cases
Maharashtra continues to report the highest number of COVID-19 cases in India.
In the past 24 hours, the state recorded 5,218 new COVID-19 infections and one pandemic-related death, which took the caseload in the state to 79,50,240 and death toll to 1,47,893.
State capital Mumbai reported 2,479 infections.?Daily cases jumped by 60 per cent compared to the previous day.?
The number of active cases rose to 24,867, including 13,614 in Mumbai, followed by 5,488 cases in neighbouring Thane and 2,443 cases in Pune districts.
More than 1,000 cases in 10 sates
Other states like Kerala, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Haryana, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Gujarat have also been reporting more than 1,000 cases daily.?
Health minister reviews the situation
Amid the rise in cases across several states, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday reviewed the situation in the country.
Mandaviya has directed officials to continue to focus on surveillance and whole genome sequencing to scan any possible mutations while stressing on adequate testing and effective monitoring to assess the spread of COVID-19 in a timely manner.
Mandaviya, who chaired a meeting with key experts and officials amid an upsurge of COVID-19 cases in some states, stressed the need to focus on districts reporting high case positivity and undertake adequate testing (with higher proportion of RT-PCR) and effective surveillance to assess and control the spread of the infection in a timely manner, the Union Health ministry said in a statement.
The minister directed officials to continue to focus on surveillance and on whole genome sequencing (WGS) to scan for any possible mutation, it said.
He also directed officials to monitor hospitalizations due to COVID-19, and SARI/ILI cases, the statement stated.
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