Covid-19: India sees record rise of 126,789 cases, 685 deaths

India’s tally of daily coronavirus cases was reported at more than 100,000 fresh infections for a third time, with a record 126,789 cases being found across the country in the last 24 hours, the Union ministry of health and family welfare’s (MoHFW) said. With the new development, the country's infection tally has risen to 12,928,574. India is world's third worst hit country by the pandemic, only after United States and Brazil respectively.

166,862, with 685 more people succumbing to the virus in this period, and constitutes 1.30% of the overall caseload.

 The country’s active caseload reached past 900,000 mark and is currently at 910,319. In the last 24-hour, 59,258 more people recovered from the viral disease, taking the total recoveries to 11,851,393, with the recovery rate standing at 92.11%.

India’s latest positive cases are from 1,237,781 samples tested by it on April 7, taking the total samples tested by the ICMR to 252,677,379, according to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

As the daily Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday received the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine here at the city's premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), giving a message to the people that "vaccination is among the few ways we have, to defeat the virus".

In view of rising covid cases in the state, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to impose night curfew in Lucknow, Kanpur and Varanasi from Thursday.