With 3,32,348 new CO-
VID19 cases as of 11.30 p.m.
on Thursday, India reported
more than three lakh new
infections for the second
consecutive day. As many as
2,247 new deaths were also
recorded. The country has
so far reported a total of
1,62,57,337 cases and
1,86,919 deaths.
India continues to lead
the world in terms of aver-
age daily cases and now ac-
counts for one in three cases
reported every day.
Over 16.51 lakh tests were
conducted on Wednesday
(results of which were made
available on Thursday), the
highestever number of tests
conducted in a single day.
For two consecutive days,
the daily tests have crossed
the 16 lakh mark.
Maharashtra reported
67,013 infections — 20% of
all new cases.
Uttar Pradesh followed with
34,379 cases and Kerala
with 26,995. Maharashtra al-
so recorded 568 casualties,
followed by Delhi (306) and
Chhattisgarh (197).
Nearly 22.11 lakh vaccine
doses were administered in
the 24 hours ending 7 a.m.
on Thursday. It is about 7.78
lakh doses lower than what
was recorded in the pre-
vious 24 hours. Also, it is ov-
er 11 lakh doses lower than
what was recorded in the
same period one week be-
fore.
The daily vaccination rate
has been declining over the
past week. Between April 8
14, India administered an average of 34.70 lakh doses ev-
ery day. However, as on
April 21, the average daily
doses given fell to 25.48
lakh. A daily rate of over 68
lakh doses a day is required
to vaccinate all adults in In-
dia by the end of 2021.
As of April 21, India re-
corded over four times the
average daily cases detected
in Brazil, which has the se-
cond most number of aver-
age daily cases — about
64,000.
As of April 21, India re-
corded the second most
number of average daily
deaths in the world next to
Brazil with about 2,800 av-
erage daily fatalities.
The figures donot include cases and deaths from
Ladakh. The data are
sourced from covid19in-
dia.org, an independent ag-
gregator of daily figure.
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