When most states are registering falls in coronavirus cases, Kerala saw an uptick of 2,216 fresh cases taking the total number of infections to 1,10,616, all other states, including Maharashtra with 1,17,698 active cases.
Union health ministry bulletin suggests that the top five states with the highest number of cases, at the moment, are Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka (38,752 cases), Tamil Nadu (33,665 cases) and Andhra Pradesh (31,850). However, the number of fatalities has also fallen across states with only Maharashtra and Kerala registering 439 and 142 fatalities, respectively, while all others saw losses in two digits.
The official report stated that Kerala has reported the highest number of recoveries from Covid-19 during the day with 11,414 patients being discharged from hospitals and healthcare facilities, followed by Maharashtra at 8,815.
Sources said that Uttar Pradesh inoculated the highest number of people with 2,98,96,371 doses being administered. Others like Maharashtra (2,80,46,874), Gujarat (2,11,86,487) and Karnataka (2,03,55,148) are also aggressively going about with its vaccination drive.
The Centre has said ‘variants of concern’ of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have been found in as many as 174 districts across 35 states and Union territories with the highest number of such infections being reported from Maharashtra, Delhi, Punjab, Telangana, West Bengal, and Gujarat.
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