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6 states account for over 85% of fresh Covid-19 cases in India: Health ministry | India News

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March 11, 2021

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu continue to report high numbers of new Covid-19 cases, together accounting for 85.91 percent of the new cases of coronavirus infection that occurred over a 10-year period in the country were reported 24 hours, said the Union Ministry of Health on Thursday.
During this period, a total of 22,854 new Covid-19 cases were registered in the country.
Maharashtra has reported the highest number of new cases at 13,659 (nearly 60 percent of the cases reported in the country), followed by Kerala (2,475) and Punjab (1,393), the ministry said.
Eight states – Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, and Haryana – are showing an upward trend in the number of new cases.
India currently has 1,89,226 active Covid-19 cases, which is 1.68 percent of its total case count.
The Department of Health showed the change in the number of active cases for the states over the 24-hour period, saying Kerala reported the maximum decrease in the number while Maharashtra showed the maximum increase.
To date, more than 2.56 crore (2,56,85,011) doses of vaccine have been administered in 4,78,168 sessions in the country, according to a preliminary report produced Thursday at 7 a.m.
Beneficiaries include 71,97,100 health care workers (HCW) who were given the first dose, 40,13,249 HCW who were given the second dose, 70,54,659 frontline workers (FLW) who were given the first dose , and 6,37,281 FLWs who received the second dose.
In addition, 9,67,058 beneficiaries over 45 years of age with specific comorbidities and 58,15,664 beneficiaries over 60 years of age received the first dose of the vaccine.
On the 54th day (March 10) of the ongoing vaccination campaign, a total of 13.17,357 doses of vaccine were administered – 10,30,243 beneficiaries vaccinated in 20,299 sessions for the first dose and 2,87,114 HCWs and FLWs administered the second dose .
A total of 126 Covid-19 deaths were reported in the country within 24 hours.
Six states account for 82.54 percent of the new deaths, with Maharashtra causing the highest losses (54), followed by Punjab (17) and Kerala (14), the Department of Health said.
Nineteen states and territories of the Union – Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Odisha, Goa, Jharkhand, Puducherry, Lakshadweep, Sikkim, Ladakh, Manipur, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura Andaman Islands- and Nicobar Islands as well as Arunachal Pradesh – did not report any Covid-19 deaths during this period.

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