New Delhi: Five states cumulatively account for over 79 per cent of the total COVID-19 active cases in India with Maharashtra alone accounting for more than 61 per cent of the active caseload, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
Apart from Maharashtra, the four other states accounting for the majority of the active cases are Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab and Chhattisgarh.
‘Five states namely Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab and Chhattisgarh cumulatively account for 79.30% of the total active cases in the country. Maharashtra leads with more than 61% of the active caseload of the country,’ the ministry said in a statement.
Eight states of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh have also reported a surge in the COVID-19 daily new cases with 84.73 per cent of the new cases reported from these states, the Union Health ministry said.
India recorded 53,480 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, 4.8 per cent lower than the day before, taking the total tally to 12,149,335 on Wednesday.
India’s total active caseload has reached 552,566. It now comprises 4.55 per cent of the country’s total positive cases.
Fourteen States/UTs have not reported any COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours. These are Rajasthan, Assam, Odisha, Ladakh (UT), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Manipur, Tripura, Sikkim, Lakshadweep, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.
On the vaccination front, the ministry said that more than 63 million vaccine doses have been administered, as per the provisional report till 7 am on Wednesday.
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