In yet another record spike, India has logged in 273,810 new coronavirus cases, the latest update from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. The fresh infections have taken the nationwide tally to 15,061,919. In the same time, 1619 more people died from the virus, taking the death to 178,769.
This is the fifth consecutive day that the country has registered over two lakh Covid cases taking the total tally to 1,50,61,919 cases. India on Sunday recorded 2,61,500 new cases, 2,34,692 cases on Saturday, 2,00,739 and 2,17,353 cases on Thursday and Friday respectively. The daily active cases tally rose to 19,29,329.
A total of 1,44,178 patients recovered in the same time span, taking the number of recoveries to 1,29,53,821 with a recovery rate of 86 per cent.
The Health Ministry said that a total of 13,56,133 samples were tested in the last 24 hours.
So far, a total of 26,78,94,549 samples have been tested in the country.
According to the government data, a total of 12,30,007 people were also vaccinated in the same period, taking the total inoculation count to 12,38,52,566.
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 141.1 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.01 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
Here’s some more updates:
*The Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has cancelled the summer vacation for the teaching staff of Institute of Medical Sciences in view of alarming increase in Covid-19 cases.
*The Hong Kong government has announced its decision to ban commercial passenger flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines for 14 days from Tuesday as these countries were “extremely high-risk for Covid-19”.
*In view of the steep rise in Covid-19 cases, the Rajasthan government has announced a 15-day lockdown starting from Monday and will continue till May 3.
*Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Monday alleged that Covid-caused deaths are being under-reported in Gujarat.
