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Daily cases in Chhattisgarh & Punjab surpass past peak, positivity rate rises to 6.4%

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New Delhi: While Covid-19 cases are rising across the country, in Chhattisgarh and Punjab daily cases have surpassed the peak in September last year.

Graphic by Ramandeep Kaur | ThePrint
Graphic by Ramandeep Kaur | ThePrint

In the last 24 hours, Chhattisgarh reported over 4,500 new cases while more than 2,900 people tested positive for the virus in Punjab.

Prior to this, the highest number of daily positives were recorded on 26 September in Chhattisgarh with 3,896 cases. Meanwhile, in Punjab, the threshold was 2,848 cases, which were registered on 17 September.

Daily cases

Graphic by Ramandeep Kaur | ThePrint

In the last 24 hours, 72,330 people tested positive for Covid-19 across the country. This is the highest number of cases reported in a single day since 10 October 2020.

Number of deaths

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India reported 459 deaths in the past 24 hours, which is the highest in the country since 6 December 2020. This has brought the country’s death toll to 1,62,927.

Active cases

Graphic by Ramandeep Kaur | ThePrint

Active cases in India increased to 5,84,055 in the last 24 hours.

Maharashtra continues to have the highest share of active cases in the country. Karnataka has the second-highest active cases but the number is much lower than Maharashtra.

Mortality rate

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The overall fatality rate for India has further dropped to 1.33. However, Punjab’s case fatality increased marginally to 2.86, and is still the highest in the country. Sikkim has the second-highest mortality rate at 2.16 while in Maharashtra, the value reduced to 1.94.

The rapid drop in CFR can be attributed to the increase in the percentage of active cases across India.

Daily vaccinations

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In the past 24 hours, 20,63,543 doses of vaccines were administered across the country. So far, 6,51,17,896 vaccine doses have been administered in India.

Furthermore, 93,34,695 people have received both doses of the vaccine in India so far.

Daily tests

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With the surge in cases across the country, testing has also increased, with 11,25,681 tests carried out across 1,227 government laboratories and 1,208 private laboratories in India.

A total of 24.4 crore tests have been carried out in the country so far.

Positivity rate

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The test positivity rate in India increased to 6.4 per cent in the last 24 hours. The overall positivity rate, calculated since the beginning of the pandemic, is 4.9 per cent.

Recovered cases

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In the past 24 hours, 40,382 Covid patients have been discharged from hospitals across India. This has brought the total number of recoveries, since the beginning of the pandemic, to 1,14,74,683.

Total cases

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In India, a total of 1,22,21,665 people have been infected with Covid-19 so far. The highest number of cases have been reported from Maharashtra, followed by Kerala and Karnataka.

States with highest active cases

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Maharashtra continues to have the highest number of active cases in the country, which increased to 3,57,604, after 39,544 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours.

A total of 28,12,980 people from Maharashtra have been infected with Covid-19 and of these, 54,649 people have died. In the last 24 hours, 227 deaths were reported.

Graphic by Ramandeep Kaur | ThePrint

With 4,225 new cases in the last 24 hours, Karnataka’s active cases increased to 28,267. With 26 deaths in the last 24 hours, the death toll rose to 12,567.

A total of 9,97,004 cases have been reported from the state.

Graphic by Ramandeep Kaur | ThePrint

In Kerala, active cases increased to 25,559 after the state reported 2,653 new positives in the last 24 hours.

This has taken the total number of cases detected in the state to 11,24,584. With 15 deaths in the last 24 hours, Kerala’s death toll increased to 4,621.

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With 25,529 cases, Chhattisgarh now has more active cases than Punjab. The state reported 4,563 new cases in the last 24 hours, which has brought the total cases to 3,49,187.

Chhattisgarh reported 39 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 4,170.

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In Punjab, active cases increased to 23,832, with 2,944 new cases detected in the last 24 hours.

With 55 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the state’s death toll increased to 6,868. A total of 2,39,734 people have tested positive for the virus so far in Punjab.

(Edited by Rachel John)

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