New Delhi: India’s Covid-19 curve has entered a second wave, with over 40,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. The country’s death toll has also crossed 1.6 lakh.
Several key states have been reporting a resurgence in cases and in Maharashtra, the cases in the second wave have outnumbered the first wave.
Second wave in key states
Maharashtra’s daily cases have already outnumbered the state’s last peak. In September last year, Maharashtra had peaked at nearly 25,000 new cases. In this wave, the state has already reported over 30,000 cases in a single day.
Delhi has already seen three waves, each of which was higher than the previous one. In November last year, the capital was reporting over 8,500 cases each day. Now, daily cases seem to be on the rise once again.
If this trend of second wave being higher than the first repeats in Karnataka, the consequences could be worrying for the country. In October, the daily cases in the state touched nearly 11,000.
Punjab has also failed to arrest its second wave, with daily cases now being recorded at a rate similar to what was witnessed in the first wave — nearly 2,500 cases every day.
However, this can be prevented. Kerala’s second wave, for example, did not outdo its previous surge in cases.
Daily cases
The number of new Covid-19 cases dropped slightly to 40,715 in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra continues to report the highest number of new cases everyday.
Daily vaccinations
A total of 4,84,94,594 vaccine doses have been administered in India so far, with 32,53,095 doses given in the last 24 hours.
This is the highest number of vaccine doses administered in a single day so far since the beginning of the vaccination drive.
Active cases
Active cases in India increased to 3,45,377 Tuesday — the highest since December 14. Over 62 per cent of the total active cases in India can be attributed to Maharashtra.
Number of deaths
India’s Covid-19 death toll is now 1,60,166, with 199 Covid-19 deaths reported across the country in the last 24 hours.
Mortality rate
The overall fatality rate for India has dropped to 1.37. Punjab’s case fatality reduced to 2.96 — which is still the highest in the country. Maharashtra’s CFR reduced to 2.13 while that of Sikkim is 2.17.
Daily tests
In the last 24 hours, 9,67,459 Covid-19 tests were conducted across the country. Over 23.5 crore tests have been carried out in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
Positivity rate
With an increase in the number of new cases, the test positivity reduced to 4.2 per cent in the last 24 hours. Test positivity is now steadily increasing throughout the country.
The overall positivity, calculated since the beginning of the pandemic, is now 4.9 per cent.
Recovered cases
As many as 29,785 patients have been discharged from Covid-19 hospitals across India in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of recoveries since the beginning of the pandemic to 1,11,81,253.
Total cases
As many as 1,16,86,796 people in India have been infected with Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. The largest number of cases so far have been reported from Maharashtra, followed by Kerala and Karnataka.
States with highest active cases
In Maharashtra, 24,645 new cases of Covid-19 were reported since yesterday. This takes the total number of active cases in the state to 2,16,540.
As many as 25,04,327 cases of Covid-19 have been reported from the state since the beginning of the pandemic.
Of these, 53,457 people have died, with 58 deaths reported in the last 24 hours.
In Kerala, active Covid-19 cases reduced to 24,389. Since yesterday, the state has reported 1,239 new cases of Covid-19.
This takes the total number of cases detected from the state to 11,05,467 since the beginning of the pandemic. With 12 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the state’s Covid-19 death toll increased to 4,507.
In Punjab, active cases increased to 18,628, with 2,299 new cases of Covid-19 reported in the last 24 hours.
A total of 2,15,409 people in the state have reported to be Covid-19 positive since the beginning of the pandemic. With 58 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the state’s Covid-19 death toll increased to 6,382.
Karnataka reported 1,445 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, as a result of which active cases in the state increased to 14,286. A total of 9,71,647 Covid-19 cases have been reported from the state.
With ten deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the death toll increased to 12,444.
Chhattisgarh reported 1,525 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The state currently has 9,205 active cases. This brings the total number of cases detected from the state to 3,25,678.
The state reported 10 deaths in the last 24 hours, which takes the Covid-19 death toll to 3,962.