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3,980 people died of Covid in India the last 24 hours, the highest in a day so far, pushing the total fatalities to 2,30,168. India’s Covid caseload hit 2.06 crore with over 4.12 lakh new cases as the crisis continues to put healthcare system on the verge of collapse.
Assam, West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand have seen a rise in the number of daily cases and mortality indicating the “pandemic is moving eastwards”, the Union Health Ministry said after a review meeting on Wednesday.
Twelve states, including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh, have more than 1 lakh active COVID-19 cases, according to the government.
Thirty districts are showing a continued rise in the number of coronavirus cases for the last two weeks. Ten of these districts are in Kerala, seven in Andhra Pradesh, three in Karnataka and one in Tamil Nadu, it said.
Maharashtra – which has been the worst-hit state since last year – reported a record 920 new deaths from COVID-19 and more than 57,000 new cases on Wednesday. Capital Mumbai reported 3,879 new cases and 77 deaths while Pune logged 9,084 cases and 93 deaths. The state currently has 6.41 lakh active cases.
Karnataka on Wednesday reported more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases in its single-largest spike in Covid infections since the start of the pandemic. Nearly half of them in capital Bengaluru.
The state has reported an alarming rise in infections over the past few weeks, fast becoming one of the worst-hit.
India accounted for 46% of global cases and 25% of global deaths reported in the past week, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
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