New Delhi: India on Saturday registered a decline in its single-day Covid tally. The country has reported 15,940 Covid-19 cases and 20 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the latest by the Union Ministry of Health. On Friday, India had reported 17,336 cases of coronavirus.
The active cases have increased from 88,284 to 91,779 in the past day. While 12,425 people have recovered in a day. Overall, 4.27 crore people have recovered from the country since the pandemic began while 5, 24,974 have died due to respiratory illnesses as per the government’s record.
Delhi on Friday recorded 1,447 new Covid cases and one more death. On the other hand, Maharashtra reported 4,205 cases of Covid-19 yesterday. The Maharashtra government is currently exploring the possibility of making face masks mandatory again in Mumbai suburban trains due to the rise in cases.
Maharashtra withdrew its mandatory mask rule in early April and made it optional in view of a sharp drop in daily cases.
Currently, 12 states and union territories are witnessing a surge in Covid-19 cases–Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Gujarat, Goa, and Punjab.
(Vinayak)
