India registered over 14,000 cases for the fifth day in a row.
IMAGE: A worker sanitses an area as people wait to undergo COVID-19 tests at a mobile swab collection bus in Vijayawada. Photograph: PTI Photo
India saw record single-day spike of 15,968 COVID-19 cases and 465 fatalities, pushing the infection tally to 4,56,183 and the death toll to 14,476 on Wednesday, the Union health ministry data said.
The number of active cases in the country stands at 1,83,022, while 2,58,684 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, according to the updated figures at 8 am.
“Thus, around 56.71 per cent patients have recovered so far,” an official said.
IMAGE: A medic wearing a PPE collects samples for COVID-19 tests at Kalasipalya police station in Bengaluru,. Photograph: Shailendra Bhojak/PTI Photo
The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases also include foreigners.
India registered over 14,000 cases for the fifth day in a row.
IMAGE: A health technician pours a sample on a COVID-19 rapid antigen kit at a testing centre in New Delhi. Photograph: Manvender Vashist/ PTI Photo
Of the 465 new deaths reported till Wednesday morning, 248 were in Maharashtra, 68 in Delhi, 39 in Tamil Nadu, 26 in Gujarat, 19 in Uttar Pradesh, 11 in West Bengal, nine each in Rajasthan and Haryana, eight each in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, four each in Punjab and Madhya Pradesh, three in Telangana, two each in Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha and Uttarakhand.
IMAGE: A chemist displays the Fabiflu tablets at his medical store, in Mumbai. Photograph: ANI Photo
Kerala, Bihar and Puducherry have reported one COVID-19 fatality each.