India recorded 54,069 new coronavirus cases of Covid-19 and 1,321 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 3,00,82,778 on Thursday.
The active case number in India fell to 6.27 lakh while the recovery rate improved to 96.61 percent, according to data released Thursday morning by the Department of Health and Family Welfare.
More than 71 percent of the new cases were reported from five states, with Kerala alone responsible for 23.65 percent of the new cases. Coronavirus updates on June 24th
The five states with the highest Covid cases were Kerala with 12,787 cases, followed by Maharashtra with 10,066 cases, Tamil Nadu with 6,596 cases, Andhra Pradesh with 4,684 cases and Karnataka with 4,436 cases.
Most of the casualties were reported in Maharashtra (508), followed by Tamil Nadu (166).
A total of 68,885 patients recovered in the past 24 hours, bringing the total recovery to 290,63,740 across the country, the updated data showed.
India administered a total of 64,89,599 doses in the past 24 hours, after which the total number of vaccinations reached 30,16,26,028.
India had registered fewer than 51,000 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday. India recorded fewer than 50,000 daily cases on Tuesday – the first time in 91 days.
In Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh around 40 cases of the Delta Plus variant have been sporadically detected so far.
“Delta Plus” has been declared a worrying variant by the center. On May 23, a person died in Madhya Pradesh who was infected with the “Delta Plus” variant of the coronavirus.
“A woman died of coronavirus on May 23 at Patidar Hospital after testing positive for COVID-19. Your sample and that of 14 others were sent to a laboratory in Bhopal for genome reporting (sequencing), ”said an official press release on Wednesday.
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