India registers sharp surge in new coronavirus cases

Gulf Today Report

India reported 43,263 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, a spike of 14 per cent in the daily new cases, a government statement said on Thursday, taking the total to 33.14 million.

This is the second consecutive day that the rise had been reported. On Wednesday, the daily COVID tally was 37,875 new infections.

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Daily deaths rose by 338 to 441,749, Health and Family Welfare Ministry's data said on Thursday.

India had reported 369 deaths on Wednesday. The fatality rate was reported at 1.33 per cent.

A health worker takes a nasal swab sample from a man to test for the coronavirus.

At the same time, in the last 24 hours, a total of 40,567 COVID-infected patients had recovered, pushing the country's total recovery numbers to 32,304,618. As per the data, the COVID recovery rate stood at 97.48 per cent.

The total active cases rose to 393,614, which is 1.19 per cent of the total COVID cases reported in the country.

While the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 2.43 per cent, which remained below the 3 per cent mark for the last 76 days, the daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.38 per cent for the last 10 days.

Out of the total new cases reported on Thursday, 30,196 cases were reported in Kerala, 4,174 in Maharashtra, while 1,587 cases were reported in Tamil Nadu, according to the health ministry's report.

The report also said that a total of 536,817,243 samples for COVID-19 have been tested in the country, of which 1,817,639 were tested in the last 24 hours.