New Delhi: Five states – Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu – continued to report a high number of daily new cases. They collectively accounted for 71.10% of the 28,903 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated here today. It informed that 83.91% of the new cases were from Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Maharashtra alone accounted for 61.8% of the daily new cases with 17,864 cases. It was followed by Kerala with 1,970 while Punjab reported 1,463 new cases.
Meanwhile out of the 188 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, six States accounted for 86.7% of the new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (87). Punjab follows with 38 daily deaths. Kerala reported 15 deaths.
Fifteen States/UTs had not reported any COVID19 deaths in the last 24 hours. These were Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Lakshadweep, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Daman & Diu, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Nagaland, Tripura, Ladakh (UT), Manipur, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Arunachal Pradesh.
Eight states, as below, are displaying an upward trajectory in daily new cases. Kerala is reporting a consistently declining trend over the last one month.
India’s total Active Caseload stood at 2.34 lakh (2,34,406) today, comprising 2.05% of the total cases.
Maharashtra, Kerala and Punjab accounted for 76.4% of India’s total active cases, with Maharashtra alone contributing nearly 60%.
Over3.5 cr (3,50,64,536) vaccine doses had been administered through 5,86,855 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am today, the Ministry stated.
– global bihari bureau
