The Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 cases are rising rapidly in India. Adding to the worsening number of cases, the Nation recorded the highest number of 3.14 lakh new COVID-19 cases.
This is the fourth consecutive day, India reported more than 2.50 lakh single day cases. On the 22nd of April, the Union Health Ministry confirmed 3,14,835 new cases. Besides new cases, the number of deaths due to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours stood at 2,104.
With this, India now has 1,59,30,965 positive cases, of which 22,91,428 are active cases, 1,84,657 are deceased cases and 1,34,54,880 are recovered/discharged cases. The updated data is available on the official website of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW.)
The numbers of new cases with everyday deaths of COVID-19 smashed all previous records of coronavirus cases in India.
However, the Centre on Wednesday presented a slew of statistics to show the severity and virulence in the ongoing second wave of the contagion are about the same as the first one.
Speaking about the current situation, medical experts expressed uncertainty about when the situation would get better. In the past week, over 2 lakh infections are being recorded everyday. The Central Government also said, despite the everyday rise of close to 3 lakhs, the second wave is yet to peak.
In the past 24 hours, the highest single day spikes were reported from Maharashtra (67,468), Uttar Pradesh (33,106), Delhi (24,638), Karnataka (23,558) and Kerala (22,414.)
Meanwhile, so far 13,23,30,644 people have been given the doses of COVID-19 vaccine across India.
