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Covid-19: India records 11,610 new cases, 100 fatalities in 24 hours
India on Tuesday reported four cases of South Africa variant strain of Sars-CoV-2 and one case of Brazil variant strain, the health ministry said.
India's tally of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) went up to 10,937,320 on Wednesday after 11,610 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, according to Union health ministry update.
The number of active cases went down by 323 and currently stands at 1,36,549.
The country recorded 100 fresh fatalities due to the infection in the said period, which took the death toll to 1,55,913, according to health ministry update at 8 am.
India on Tuesday reported four cases of South Africa variant strain of S-CoV-2 and one case of Brazil variant strain, the health ministry said.
"The travellers from both the countries and their contacts have been tested and quarantined," said Dr Balram Bhargava, Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
He further said that ICMR-NIV Pune is attempting to isolate and culture the SA variant strain from the samples of these four individual returnees.
Meanwhile, the ongoing vaccination programme saw doses being administered to over 88 lakh healthcare and frontline workers. The countrywide vaccination drive was rolled out on January 16 and vaccination of the frontline workers started from February 2.
Maharashtra and Kerala continue to report the highest number of Covid-19 cases and have the maximum number of active cases, the health ministry has said.
"Similarly like last week, the main causes of worry are again from two states because Kerala has 61,550 cases while 27,383 cases are in Maharashtra," said health secretary Rajesh Bhushan.
"In the last 24 hours, Maharashtra has 3,365 new cases, which is higher than Kerala," he added.
India on Tuesday recorded another landmark achievement as the national recovery rate from Covid-19 touched 97.32 per cent, among the highest in the world.
