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India sees over 2 lakh cases for second consecutive day

By:  Tupaki Desk   |   16 April 2021 4:58 AM GMT
India sees over 2 lakh cases for second consecutive day
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India continues to fear the second wave of the Coronavirus as the country has been witnessing the highest spike in fresh infections. In the past 24 hours, India yet again reported record cases on April 16.

In the past 24 hours, India reported not less than 217,353 coronavirus infections, the highest single-day cases so far. For the second consecutive day, India added more than 2 lakh fresh infections. The other day, India saw 2,00,739 Fresh Coronavirus Cases.

With India adding more than 2 lakh cases for two consecutive days, the country's total tally has risen to 14,291,917. India is currently the second severely hit nation in the world with the Covid-19 outbreak.

On the other hand, the total active cases in India have surpassed the massive 1.5 million mark with as many as 15,63,588 cases. In a span of fifteen days, the active cases have increased by more than 2 times. A total of 24,29,564 patients have been declared recovered from the respiratory disease.

With 1,182 patients breathing their last battling the respiratory disease in the last 24 hours, the total casualties caused by the pandemic in the country have mounted to 1,74,335, the data issued by the union health ministry of family and welfare said.

The pandemic is ringing danger bells in Maharashtra, continuing its string of reporting the highest numbers of cases and casualties. Maharashtra added 61,695 new cases and 349 deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of cases and fatalities have risen to 36,39,855 and 59,153 respectively.

Maharashtra (3,578,160), Kerala (1,189,175), Karnataka (1,094,912), Tamil Nadu (954,948), and Andhra Pradesh (937,049) are the top five affected states in the country. These states account for nearly 75 percent of the total cases in India.

Following the unexpected spike in fresh infections and fatalities, several States and Union Territory like National Capital Delhi have imposed a weekend curfew and night curfews to curb the infections.

Looking at the global scenario, respiratory disease has infected as many as 139,660,993 people so far. United States(32,223,714), India, Brazil, France, and Russia are the worst-hit nations globally.