Mumbai in Maharashtra reported the highest single-day spike in coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic after recording a total of 11,163 cases in the last 24 hours.
The new cases today took the overall COVID-19 count to 4,52,445 in the city while 25 deaths today took the death count to 11,776.
At least 5,263 recoveries today brought the total number of active Covid cases to 68,052.
Maharashtra government on Sunday announced a weekend lockdown in the state from 8 pm on Friday to 7 am on Monday in a bid to curb the growing numbers of Covid-19 cases in the state.
About 7.59 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in India so far. India’s regulator has also granted restricted emergency use approval for two vaccines — Covishield and Covaxin.
All persons above the age of 45 are eligible to get vaccinated. Globally, more than 13.05 crore people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 29.81 lakh have died so far.
Maharashtra is among the five states that are currently reporting the maximum number of daily cases of the coronavirus disease. Along with it, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu accounted for 84.71% of the 18,711 new daily cases reported in a day by Sunday morning, the Union ministry of health and family welfare said.
