New Delhi (NVI): India has registered 26,567 new infections of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, pushing the overall caseload to 97,03,770, according to the Ministry of Health.
This is for the first time since July when daily coronavirus cases is less than 27,000 in a day.
The country’s death toll due to the virus rose to 1,40,958, with 385 patients succumbing to the infection since yesterday.
Notably, a total of 91,78,946 patients have been cured or discharged so far, while the active cases remained below 4-lakh mark and stands at 3,83,866, as per the ministry data.
In the worst-affected Maharashtra, COVID-19 confirmed cases increased to 18,55,341 which include 47,774 deaths. The active cases in the state stand at 76,852 and 17,30,715 recoveries.
Maharashra is followed by Karnataka (8,94,004), Andhra Pradesh (8,72,288), Tamil Nadu (7,91,552), Kerala (6,39,664) and Uttar Pradesh (5,56,397).
Meanwhile, the national capital has registered 5,93,924 COVID-19 cases, while 9,706 people have died of the virus in Delhi.
Over 14.8 crore samples tested for COVID-19 up to December 7. Of these 10,26,399 samples were tested yesterday, as per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) data.
Furthermore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said that the country will not have to wait too long for the coronavirus vaccine even as he cautioned people that there should be no laxity as far as prevention of the infection is concerned.
-RJV
