New
Delhi, (the states. news)
India recorded
16,946 fresh cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours, pushing the country
caseload to 1,05,12,09, while the death toll soared to 1,51,727 with 198 fresh
fatalities.
According to Union Health Ministry, the active cases saw a drop of 904 to stand
at 2,13,603. It is 2.03 per cent of the total caseload.
Maharashtra accounted for 70 of the day’s fatalities followed by 26 from Kerala
and 18 from West Bengal.
On a positive note, the frontline medics were able to save 17,652 more lives,
taking the total recovery count to 1,01,46,763, which is 96.52 per cent of the
caseload. The fatality rate stood at 1.44 per cent.
As per Indian Council of Medical Research, 7,43,191 samples were tested on
Wednesday, taking to 18,42,32,305 the total.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on
March 11. To date, more than 92.7 million people have been infected with the
coronavirus worldwide, with over 1.98 million fatalities.
Exactly 13 days later, India announced a stringent 21-day nationwide lockdown
from March 25, however, as the cases kept rising, the lockdown kept extending
till May 30 after which the country started lifting the restrictions in order
to revive the battered economy.
And now after several months of hardship, India is just two days away from
starting to vaccinate its massive population with two recently approved COVID
vaccines. ( #Corona_virus )
The government said that the full initial procurement amount of 1.65 crore
doses of Covishield and Covaxin vaccines against Covid-19 have been allocated
to all states and Union territories in the proportion of healthcare workers
database. (uni) (media saheb.com)
COVID-19: India reports 16,946 new cases, 198 deaths
