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India records over 62,000 new Covid cases

India recorded 62,258 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the biggest single-day jump since October 16, taking the total Covid caseload to over 1.19 crore. The number of fresh infections is 5.3 per cent higher than a day before. 291 deaths in the last 24 hours have pushed the total death count to 1,61,240. India, which reported its first case on January 30 last year, is the third worst-hit country in the world by the pandemic after the United States and Brazil. Amid the worrying rise in the number of infections, Maharashtra, the worst-hit state in the country, will impose a night curfew from Sunday. Over 1.12 crore people in the country have recovered since the beginning of the pandemic.

According to the dashboard of the Union ministry of health and family welfare's (MoHFW)  on Saturday morning nearly 300 more lives were lost to the viral disease in this period, with 291 related fatalities taking the death toll to 161,240, the ministry’s dashboard showed that recoveries rose to 11,295,023, with 30,386 more patients being discharged, though the recovery rate ‘dropped’ slightly to 94.85%. Active caseload, meanwhile, witnessed a rise of 31,581 fresh cases, reaching 452,647. ICMR said that  that it has tested nearly 240 million,

The second wave of the pandemic in Maharashtra is turning out to be worse than the first wave. Over the last three days, the state has seen more than 30,000 new cases, with daily new tally being higher than the day before and the worst since the beginning of the pandemic, before being surpassed by cases on the next day. On Friday, Maharashtra recorded 36,902 fresh infections or 59.27% of total cases recorded nationally in the last 24 hours. The state also witnessed 112 deaths, taking its death toll to 53,907. Its capital city of Mumbai is also seeing record cases every day.


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