09:12 (IST)
Coronavirus in India Rajasthan Updates
Rajasthan govt launches anti-COVID campaign
On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary on Friday, the Rajasthan government launched a state-wide anti-COVID campaign aimed at defeating the pandemic through various preventive and precautionary measures.
The campaign was launched by the state Cabinet members with the ministers distributing face masks and urging people to wear them and take all precautionary measures to defeat coronavirus.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot was to launch the campaign but he could not do it due to his ill health and the ministers launched the campaign by distributing masks in the markets of the walled city area.
08:58 (IST)
Coronavirus in India LATEST Updates
India's COVID-19 recovery rate at 83.70%
With 78,877 people having recuperated from COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, India's total recoveries surged to 53,52,078 pushing the recovery rate to 83.70 percent, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.
08:57 (IST)
Coronavirus in Maharashtra LATEST Updates
Maharashtra reports over 14.16 lakh COVID-19 cases
Maharashtra on Friday recorded 15,591 new coronavirus cases, which took the overall count in the state to 14,16,513, according to the state health department. With 424 COVID-19 patients succumbing, the toll due to the pandemic reached 37,480.
Coronavirus LATEST Updates: For the eleventh successive day, India's active COVID-19 cases remained less than 10 lakh, while the country continued to maintain its global position of having the maximum number of recovered patients, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.
With 78,877 people having recuperated from COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, India's total recoveries surged to 53,52,078 pushing the recovery rate to 83.70 percent, according to data updated at 8 am.
"The last 10 lakh recoveries were added in just 12 days. With this, India continues to maintain its global position of being the country with maximum number of recovered COVID patients in the world," the ministry said.
There are 9,42,217 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 14.74 percent of the total caseload.
Maharashtra is leading the tally among states with more than 2.5 lakh cases. Karnataka follows with more than 1 lakh cases, the ministry said.
Fourteen states and union territories, including Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Puducherry, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa and Sikkim, have less than 5,000 active cases of COVID-19, the ministry highlighted.
A total of 81,484 new confirmed cases have been reported in the past 24 hours in the country.
The ministry said that 78.07 percent of the 81,484 new cases reported in a span of 24 hours are concentrated in 10 states and UTs -- Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal, Delhi and Chhattisgarh.
Maharashtra contributed more than 16,000 new cases. Karnataka has contributed around 10,000 cases and Kerala follows with more than 8,000.
Also, 10 States and UTs -- Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, West Bengal, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Kerala -- account for 72 percent of the newly recovered cases, the ministry said.
Maharashtra has the highest number of newly recovered cases, followed by Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
Further, 1,095 fatalities due to COVID-19 have been registered in the country in a span of 24 hours, 83.37 percent of which were reported from 10 states and UTs -- Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Kerala, Chhattisgarh.
India's COVID-19 caseload mounted to 63,94,068 with 81,484 infections being reported in a day, while the toll climbed to 99,773 with the virus claiming 1,095 lives in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.
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