Maharashtra records over 8,000 COVID-19 cases after four months; Delhi, Bengal mandate RT-PCR test for visitors
FirstpostEarlier today, announcing the next phase of India’s vaccination drive, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said that people above the age of 60 and those above 45 years with co-morbidities will be vaccinated from 1 March The Maharashtra government on Wednesday instructed all district collectors and municipal commissioners to increase testing after the state witnessed a significant rise in coronavirus cases with more than 8,000 new infections coming to light in a single day after a gap of over four months. India on Wednesday dispatched the first batch of six lakh coronavirus vaccine doses to the African country of Ghana under the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access in collaboration with the UNICEF, which aims to cover 92 countries under the initiative India reported 13,742 new COVID-19 cases and 104 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to data released by the Union Health Ministry. Mumbai recorded 1,167 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily spike in about four months, on Wednesday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. No death due to COVID-19 in 19 states, UTs in a day: Health Ministry Nineteen states and union territories have not reported any death due to COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, while India’s active cases stood at 1,46,907 accounting for 1.33 per cent of the total number of infections, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.