Tag: coronavirus cases in India

India braces for COVID-19 curbs as infections hit 6-month high

India’s biggest cities braced for stricter lockdowns and other COVID-19 curbs on Saturday asinfections hit a six-month high, as a month-long surge continued in the country third-worst hit by the pandemic. India’s richest state, Maharashtra, accounted for more than half of the 89,129 new cases reported by the […]

India launches biggest vaccination drive yet against a surging coronavirus

India began vaccinating tens of thousands of people above the age of 45 on Thursday in its biggest push yet against a surging coronavirus that has hit the highest daily count since early October, officials said. The world’s second most populous country aims to immunise 400 million people […]

India’s daily coronavirus cases rise at slower pace than day earlier

India reported 53,480 new cases of the coronavirus, health ministry data showed on Wednesday, the second day that cases have risen less than the day before. Deaths were at their highest since mid-December, according to a Reuters tally, with 354 people dying of the coronavirus in the last […]

6 states account for over 78 pc of India’s fresh COVID-19 cases

New Delhi, Mar 30:  Six states, including Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, have reported a high number of daily COVID-19 cases and account for 78.56 per cent of the 56,211 fresh cases recorded in the country in a day, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday India’s […]

India suffers highest daily coronavirus infections in five months

India reported the highest daily increase in coronavirus cases in five months on Monday, with the second wave of the disease driven by surging infections in the country’s richest state Maharastra. A total of 68,020 new coronavirus cases were reported in the last 24 hours, the health ministry […]

India’s Maharashtra considers total lockdown as virus cases jump

India’s richest state, Maharashtra, is considering imposing a strict lockdown this week after recording the highest one-day jump in coronavirus infections of any Indian state since last March, officials said on Sunday. Maharashtra tightened travel restrictions and imposed night curfews as it reported 40,414 new coronavirus cases on […]

COVID-19: Daily deaths over 300 for first time this year, 62,714 new cases

New Delhi, Mar 28:  India saw 62,714 new coronavirus infections in a day, the highest single day rise so far this year, taking the nationwide COVID-19 tally to 1,19,71,624, while the daily deaths crossed the 300-mark for the first time in 2021, according to the Union Health Ministry […]

Surge in fresh COVID-19 cases, India records 59,118 new infections

New Delhi, Mar 26:  India saw 59,118 new coronavirus infections in a day, the highest single day rise so far this year, taking the nationwide COVID-19 tally to 1,18,46,652, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday The active caseload breached the 4 lakh-mark again after […]

India locks down some towns as coronavirus cases hit 5-month high

Authorities ordered people indoors in some towns in western India as the number of new coronavirus infections hit 53,476 infections overnight, the highest in five months, data showed on Thursday. Cases have surged across several states in since late February, following a near-full reopening of the economy and […]

India detects novel coronavirus variant

India’s health ministry said on Wednesday that a novel variant of the coronavirus had been detected in the country in addition to many other variants of concern (VOCs) also found abroad. “Though VOCs and a new double mutant variant have been found in India, these have not been […]

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