Coronavirus June 17 Latest News: India’s latest Covid surge continues unabated as the country recorded over 12,000 fresh coronavirus cases for second consecutive day today. The health ministry’s update says that 12,847 new cases were registered in the span of 24 hours. The single-day spike also means that there has been no letup in new cases in focus areas such as Mumbai, Thane, Delhi and Karnataka. The fresh data suggests that these areas are contributing 81 per cent of the total case count in the country. Out of these, Maharashtra remains on the top with over 4,000 cases. Here are latest development related to pandemic that you should know:
The data updated at 8 am also recorded 14 fresh fatalities, pushing the overall death figure to 5,24,817.
The active cases now constitute 0.15 per cent of the total infections, while the country’s COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.64 per cent, the health ministry said. The case fatality rate was 1.21 per cent.
An increase of 4,848 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.47 per cent, and the weekly positivity rate at 2.41 per cent, according to the health ministry. The number of people who have recovered from the disease rose to 4,26,82,697.
On the vaccination front, according to the ministry cumulatively 195.84 doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020. It went past the four-crore mark on January 25 this year.
(With Agency Inputs)